[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Bedford. Maps of these surveys, with the field-books of the surveyor, Nathaniel Merritt, were filed in the office of the Secretary of State, where they are still preserved, and duplicates were placed in the county clerk's office of this county, but only the map of the East Patent tract is now found. 3 (For copy of the map of part of West Patent, and its relations to the boundaries of Bedford and New Castle, see Bedford, Patents and Boundary Lines.) The northern boundary of the tract bought from the Indians by Heathcote was the Croton River; but before the patent was issued Van Cortlandt had obtained the charter for his manor, the southern limit of which was a due east line running twenty miles from a point near the mouth of the Croton; hence this was fixed as the north boundary of the West Patent, and so remains, Van Cortlandt's line dividing New Castle from Yorktown and Cortlandt on the north. Until 1S4(! Somers, (formerly called Stephen-town) extended south to this line. On May 12th, of that year, the act was passed, annexing to New Castle that part of Somers lying south of the Croton River. The west boundary of the town was the same from ' the beginning — that is, the slanting line which origin-ated as the northern boundary of the lands of Fred-erick Philipse, his possessions extending along the Hudson River to Kitchawan Creek, "and so east-ward into the woods along said creek or river two English miles, and from thence upon a direct east Map No..Mil. Itcgiater'!-Otticc.