60 The Story of The Bronx 



George Tippett [also spelt Tippit and Tibbett] and William 

 Betts, 



"a parcell of land & meadow . . . formerly owned by old 

 Youncker [sic] van der Donck, which runs west to Hudson's 

 river & east to Broncks River, with all the upland from 

 Broncks River south to Westchester Path, & so runs due east, 

 and north beginning at the boggy swamp with" the liberty 

 of the said Patent, & the southernmost bound to run by the 

 path that runneth and lyeth by the north end of the aforesaid 

 swamp, & so run due east to Broncks River, & due west to 

 the meadow which cometh to the wading place. " 



On December I, 1670, a third parcel of Colen Donck was sold 

 to Francis French and Ebenezer Jones of Ann Hook's Neck and 

 John Westcott of Jamaica, Long Island — this is the tract known 

 as the Mile Square in the city of Yonkers, famous in Revolu- 

 tionary annals. Later, Doughty sold the northern portions 

 of the patent to Dame Margaret Philipse and Dirk Smith. 

 Finally, September 29,1672, he sold the remainder of the tract 

 consisting of 7708 acres, to Frederick Philipse, Thomas 

 Delavall, and Thomas Lewis. 



Jan Arcer, the first purchaser from Doughty, was probably 

 an inhabitant of Westchester, as the name appears in the 

 records of that town. He was probably of Dutch extraction, 

 though Bolton gives an elaborate genealogy of him from 

 Fulbert L'Archer, one of the companions of William the 

 Conqueror. Having married an English wife, Arcer 's name 

 was anglicized into Archer. In addition to the Doughty 

 tract, he acquired other lands from the Indians to the westward 

 of the Bronx ; and was such a land-grabber that the Dutch 

 nicknamed him Koopall, or "Buy all." On the question of 

 land, he might be appropriately termed the Astor of the seven- 

 teenth century. He established a dorp, or village, in the 



