[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The reader has, of course, borne in mind that throughout the period we have traversed in tracing the originial land acquisitions under English rule in the western division of the county — that is, a period reaching to the end of the seventeenth century, — the more complete settlement of the already well-occupied eastern division was steadily proceeding, and, besides resulting in the constant upbuilding of the little communities on the Sound, was incidentally bringing all previously neglected dis-tricts of the interior, up to the confines of Philipse's and Van Cort-landt's lands, under definite private ownership, and distributing through them an enterprising and energetic element of new settlers. To this onward movement from the east the inhabitants of all the existing patents from Westchester town to Byram Point contributed; 172 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY and, moreover, ihe people of the adjoining parts of Connecticut con-tinued to manifest a hearty interest and to share in the work of oc-cupation and development. As Avill be shown later, much of the most notable enterprise undertaken from the east was by certain