[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Connecticut (mostly residents of Norwalk) obtained from the gov-ernment of that colony the grant of what is known as the Ridge-field Patent, whose western boundary was the New York State line, at that time supposed to be twenty miles from the Hudson. After the measuring off of the Oblong, the Ridgefleld patentees, discov-ering that a portion of their property lay in New York State, peti-tioned the New York authorities for a patent for fifty thousand acres within the Oblong bounds, which was duly granted, June 8, 1731. These patentees were headed by the Rev. Thomas Hawley, and are described in the document as " inhabitants of ye town of Ridgefleld." These Oblong acres subsequently became the eastern portion of the original Town of Salem, whereof the western portion was taken from Cortlandt Manor. The Town of Poundridge was settled by farming people from Con-necticut, who began to take up lands within its borders in the latter part of the first half of the eighteenth century. The name comes " from the ancient ' Indian pound,' which formerly stood at the foot of a high ridge a little south of the present locality known as Pound-ridge, where the Indians sot their traps tor wild game." The first set-tler is supposed to have been Deacon John Fancher. He came in 1730. In 1711 Joseph Lockwood, James Brown, David Potts, Ebe-nezer Scofield, and others from Stamford, made a settlement on the sito of the present village. The Lockwood family was long the most prominent one in the town.