History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 486
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] man according to privilege; and, at the same time, it was ordered that " every lot of hind " should Ik; "bounded as the same was fust laid out, although it may contain or comprehend more or less acres than it was granted or laid out for." In 1704 John Drake, Henry Fowler, Joseph Drake, Edmund Ward ami Jeremiah Fowler are authorized to act for the freeholders of the town, with Colonel Peartree, Colonel Van Cortlandt and Mr. Van Home (Mr. funhorn), in procuring a patent for "all the lands without the northeast line," without and within — that is to say, all the lands. This patent was granted, but not issued until 1708. In 1715 the sum of fifty pounds, to pay the necessary charges, was levied by rate upon the freeholders according to each man's privilege or interest in it, which amount being raised, 722