[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] within these abuttments, viz.: Southerly on the bounds of the town-ship of Stamford; Westerly on the wilderness; Northerly on the wil-derness; and easterly on the wilderness, or land not yet laid out. Every of which sides is six miles in length, to witt : from the east side westerly, and from the south side northerly, and is a township of six miles square, or six miles on every side, which said lands have been by purchase or otherwise, lawfully obtained of the Indian na-tive proprietors." April 8, 1704, this Connecticut patent was con-firmed by New York, an annual quit-rent of £5 being provided for. By reference to a map of the manors of Westchester County it will be observed that the northern section of Bedford Patent overlaps Cortlandt Manor, taking a quite considerable area from that manor. On the other hand, Stephanas Van Cortlandt's manor grant, dated June 17, 1007, called for a southern boundary beginning at the mouth of the Croton River and running due east "twenty English miles "— that is, in a continuous line from the Hudson River to Connecticut. This interception of the southern boundary of Cortlandt Manor by the Bedford Patent requires explanation. At the time when the Cortlandt Manor grant was issued the Bed-bud Patent for a tract six miles square based upon Stamford bounds on the south, as conferred by the general court of Connecticut, was already in existence, having', in fact, been obtained some six weeks COMPLETION OF EARLY LOCAL SETTLEMENT 223 previously.