[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] On the 14th of November, 1(>54, Thomas Pell, of Fairfield, Conn., bought from the sachems Maminepoe and Ann-Hoock (alias Wampage), and five other Indians, " all that tract of land called West Chester, which is bounded on the east by a brook, called Cedar Tree Brook or Gravelly Brook, and so running northward as the said brook runs into the woods about eight English miles, thence west to 116 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Bronck's River to a certain bend in the said river, thence by marked trees south until it reaches the tide waters of the Sound, together with all the islands lying before that tract." This is the earliest legal record we have of the application of the name Westchester to any section of our county; although there is reason for believing that for several years previously this locality on the Sound had been so called by the people of Connecticut, and that some squatters had already made their way thither.1 The bounds of Pell s purchase overlapped the old Dutch Vredeland and encroached upon the grants formerly made in that region to Throckmorton and Cor-nell." Indeed, after the English took possession of New Netherland, the Town of Westchester set up a claim to the whole of Throgg's Neck, and Pell brought suit to recover Cornell's Neck from Thomas Cor-nell's heir; but as it was a part of the English policy to confirm all legitimate Dutch land grants, both these pretensions were disal-lowed Westchester, as originally so styled, covered a much greater extent of country than the township of that name.