History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 87
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the Sound the Eye, Harrison, Mamaroneck, New Eochelle, East-chester, and Westchester tracts and settlements; on the upper Hud-son the Ryke and Kranckhyte patents, upon which the village of Peekskil] has been built; and in the interior the disputed White Plains lands, the Bedford tract, and some minor strips bought or oc-cupied by men from the older settlements on the Sound, — all of West-chester County, as originally conveyed by the Indians under deeds of sale to the whites, was parceled out into a small number of great estates or patents representing imposing single proprietorships, as distinguished from ordinary homestead lots or moderate tracts taken up incidentally to the progress of bona fide settlement.