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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 73 (part 3)

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After the English conquest and the issuance of notification to existing land proprietors to renew their patents, she and her husband journeyed to New York, and ap-peared before Governor Mcolls with satisfactory evidence of legal ownership of this tract. The governor therefore (October 8, 1666) granted a royal patent to " Hugh O'Xeale and Mary his wife," con-firming them in its possession, its limits being thus described: " Bounded to the northwards by a rivulet called by the Indians Macakassin, so running southward to Xeperhaem [Yonkers], from