462 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



John Lawrence and Stephanas Van Cortlandt, excused,) to aid in regu- 

 lating in the speediest manner the estate of the above mentioned 

 Richard Morris, and to report the result to the Governor." 



In 1676, Lewis Morris, second proprietor of Morrisania, and brother 

 of Richard, obtained the following letters patent : 



GOVERNOR ANDROS'S PATENT FOR BRONCK'S LAND. 



Edmund Andros, Esq., seigneur of Sausmarez, Lieut. Gov'nr Gen'l, under his 

 royal highness, James, Duke of York, and of all his territories in America, to all 

 to whom these presents shall come, with greeting: Whereas, Col. Lewis Morris 

 of the Island of Barhadoes, hath long enjoyed, and by patent stands possest of a 

 certain plantation and tract of land, lying and being upon the maine, over against 

 the town of Ilaerlem, commonly called Brotick's land, the same containing 

 about rive hundred acres, or two hundred and fifty morgen of land, besides the 

 meadow thereunto annexed or adjoining, cotted and bounded as in the original 

 Dutch ground brief and patent of confirmation is set forth ; and the said Col. 

 Morris having made good improvement upon the said land, and there lying lands 

 adjacent to him not included in any patent or grants, which land the said Col. 

 Morris doth desire for further improvement, this said land and addition being 

 b( landed from his own house over against Ilaerlem, running up Haerlem river to 

 Daniel Turner's land, and so along his said land northward to John Archer's line, 

 and from thence stretching east to the land of John Richardson and Thomas Hunt, 

 and thence along the Sound about southw r est, through Bronck's kill, to the said 

 Col. Morris his house, the additional land containing (according to the survey 

 thereof) the quantity of fourteen hundred, and the whole, one thousand nine hun- 

 dred and twenty acres. Now know ye that by virtue of the commission and 

 authority unto me given by his royal highness, I have confirmed, granted and 

 given, and do hereby confirm, give and grant, unto the said Col. Morris, his 

 heirs and assigns, the afore recited land possessed by him, and the additional 

 land herein exprest, and bounded as aforesaid, together with the woods and mea- 

 dows, both salt and fresh waters and creeks belonging to the said land and prem- 

 ises, in his royal highncss's gift, with all and singular the appurtenances to have 

 and to hold these said lands and premises unto the said Col. Lewis Morris, his 

 heirs and assignees, unto the proper use and behoof of him the said Col. Lewis 

 Morris, his heirs and assignees, forever. He continuing in obedience and con- 

 forming himself according to the law^s of this government, and yielding and pay- 

 ing therefor yearly and every year, as a quit-rent to his royal higlmess, five 

 bushels of good winter 1 wheat. 



Given under my hand and sealed with the seal of the Province of New York, 

 this five and twentieth day of March, in the eighth and twentieth year of his 

 majesty's reign, Anno Domini, 1G76. vnT)nCQ 



Recorded by order of the governor, the 

 day and year above written. 



Matthias Niccolls, Seo. 



a Doc. Col. Hist. N. Y. Holland Doc. vol. ii. p. 691. 



