[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] solicitor-general followed the Indian deed as pre-pared by Heathcote and the warrant of the Governor, which was based upon the deed, instead of going out of his way to say "Bedford line of three miles square," no trouble would have occurred. It seems difficult, on the whole, to avoid the inference that it was the intention to quite ignore the rights of the Bedford people to the lands they had bought and settled upon, for the East Patent, granted a fortnight later, was so described as to include within its limits the southeastern quarter of the town of Bedford. Thus these men took, or tried to take, all of Bedford south of the line which Van Cortlandt had caused to be surveyed across that town for the southern bound-ary of his manor, but which he had to abandon. -The confirmation of the Bedford Patent by the author-ities of the province of New York in 17(14, of course, deprived the ten patentees of the advantage that they expected to derive from the bold act of the 1 Sin Ile.lfonl, Patent* mid lloniidary Lint's. • Si-. llcdford. Patents iiml Uoumlary Lines. I'uter Matthew.*, one of the grantee* of the Kant 1'ittt-iit, Ml at thin very time retained hy the