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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 86 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] It contained five thousand acres of improvable land. The Middle Patent, dated February 17, 1701, to Caleb Heathcote and twelve others, extended from the West Patent to the Mianus River, and had fifteen hundred acres of improvable land. The East Patent, the largest of the three, embracing sixty-two hundred acres of im-provable land, was granted on the 20th of March, 1701, to R. Walter and ten others, and covered much of the northeastern section of the county. In the purchases consolidated in these three patents Heathcote was the original mover, but had the co-operation of several other active