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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 78 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Betts had lived for a number of years in Westchester, where he served as one of Stuyve-sant's magistrates, and later was a patentee of the town under the English patent. Tibbetts, Hadden, and Betts, as settlers outside the limits of Fordham, had various disputes with the authorities of that place, and especially with Archer, the lord of the manor. Being summoned to assist in the building of the " causeway " from the ferry terminal to the firm land, they objected, representing to the governor that this improvement would be of less value to them than