A copy of the 1641 Brockett map as shown in "Three Centuries of New Haven, 1638-1938"
by Rollin G. Osterweis, published in 1953 by Yale Univ. Press
SQUARE 3 (top right): William Thorp, Robert Hill, Wid. Williams, Andrew Low, Jeremiah Dixon, Edw. Tench(?), Anne Higginson, Mr. Lucas, Deamor(?), David Atwater, John Goffinch(?), Francis Newman, Henry Browning
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A view of the map of New Haven during the period that William Thorp resided there and where William Hearns met Elizabeth Thorp.
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......The list [of residents rated and assessed] is small, but small as it is none of the persons named are positively known to have been living on the Philipse Patent. In the statement of David NIMHAM, the Indian sachem, presented to the governor and Council, in 1765, it is stated that about 40 years before, sundry persons began to settle upon the land as tenants of Adolph PHILIPSE, and it also seems that some whites were settlers on the land as tenants of the Indians themselves. It seems to be well established that as early as 1740 there was quite a number of inhabitants. The fact that when the survey and division of the patent was made in 1754, an "old meeting house," standing in the northwest corner of Lot 9 is mentioned as a landmark, would indicate a population sufficiently large to establish a church at least twenty yeas before that date. These were the "Englishmen who came from Connecticut and Long Island," as mentioned by SMITH. About 1740, there was a large number of families who emigrated to this region from Cape Cod. Others came from the bordering towns in Connecticut, while the TOWNSENDS, HOLMES, FIELDS, and HORTONS are prominent examples of the families who came from Long Island.........

.... "Of the brothers of the first Benjamin HAVILAND, Daniel lived south of the Quaker meeting house (for which he gave the land), while Roger lived in Connecticut near the State line, Solomon lived in Harrison, and Isaac lived on the bank of the Croton River, in the town of Pawling. For want of any contradictory evidence we conclude that the HAVILANDs were the first settlers in the town. The settlers on Lot 7 of Philipse Patent, were of course tenants under Beverly ROBINSON. Who the first settlers were on this tract is not known. The following brief list of tenants wre found among the Philipse papers, and doubtless was made about 1760:
"A list of tenants on Mr. ROBINSON�s Lot No. 7: Samuel TERRY, 5� acres; B. GIFFORD 14�; Judah SMITH & others, 319�; John HUNGERFORD, 195; Peter EASTMAN, 177; Jno. COVEY, 112; Noah LEE, 139; Isaac UTTER, 200; Samuel HALLOCK, 199; Fred. BAKER, 97�."
Thomas LEE had a lease of 120 acres on the west side of Croton swamp in 1752.
For a long time there were disputes as to the true ownership of the lands bordering on the Oblong, and farms were taken up and improved by persons whose titles (on paper, at least) dated back prior to the establishment of the Oblong line.
It seems that the General Assembly of Connecticut, at their session in New Haven in October, 1707, granted to Capt. Nathan GOLD and others, certain lands which lay to the west of the Oblong, and these lands were claimed, in 1765, by William WILLET of Flushing, L.I.; Jonathan BROWN, of Westchester; Joseph SACKETT, Jamaica, L.I.; William Hooker SMITH, of White Plains, �surgeon�; Matthias MARSH, of Dutchess County, and John THOMAS, of Westchester, and they were also claimed by Philip PHILIPSE, Roger MORRIS, and Beverly ROBINSON, by virtue of the patent to Adolph PHILIPSE, and also by virtue of the patent for the two tracts next to the Oblong, granted to them, March 27, 1761....