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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 73 (part 3)
After the English conquest and the issuance of notification to existing land proprietors to renew their patents, she and her husband journeyed to New York, and ap-peared before Governor Mcolls with satisfactory evidence of legal ownership of this tract. The governor therefore (October 8, 1666) granted a royal patent to " Hugh O'Xeale and Mary his wife," con-firming them in its possession, its limits being thus described: " Bounded to the northwards by a rivulet called by the Indians Macakassin, so running southward to Xeperhaem [Yonkers], from