[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The reader will remember that Heathcote, in addition to buying the Kichbell estate and some adjacent Indian lands, called the Pox Meadows (the latter being secured in order to extend the limits of his proposed manor southward to the Eastchester boundary), pro-cured from Governor Fletcher a license to purchase vacant and un-appropriated land in Westchester County, and extinguish the title of the natives. Under this license, dated October 12, 169G, he, with a number of associates, bought up practically all of the county that still remained in the possession of its aboriginal owners — that is, all of the previously unpurchased portions bounded on the south by Harrison's Purchase and Scarsdale Manor (or, rather, Harrison's Purchase and the disputed White Plains tract), on the east by Con-necticut, on the north by Cortlandt Manor, and on the west by Phil-ipseburgh Manor. In the aggregate, the purchases thus made em-braced "about seventy thousand acres, or some twelve thousand seven hundred acres of so-called " improvable land," and they were COLONEL CALEB HEATHCOTE 183 largely confirmed to Heathcote and his associates in three patents issued by Lieutenant-Governor Nanfan, known as the West, Mid-dle, and East Patents. The West Patent, dated February 14, 1701, to Robert Walter and nine other patentees, included all of the large angle between Philipseburgh and Cortlandt Manors, and stretched eastwardly to the Bryam River and the Town of Bed-ford.