THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 505 



s d John Archer, his heirs & assignes unto ye proper use & behoofu of him ye s<> 

 John Archer, his heirs & assignes forever, free, quit and cleare from all & any 

 form of bargaine & sale, or any other incumbrances by us or by any from or un- 

 der us & to ye utmost of o ,r powers shall keep and save him the s d John Archer, 

 his heirs & assignes, harmlesse in his or their quiett possession & enjoyment of 

 ye premises against any other Indian pr'tenders whatsoever. In witness whereof 

 we have hereunto put o ,r hand & scales, ye day & yeare first within wrytten 



This bargain & sale was made by ye 

 approbation & lycense of his Hon' 8 ye 

 governors between ye partyes mentoned, 

 with this Proviso that his Royall High- 

 ness, his Rights & Priviledges as Lord 

 Proprietor of theese his territoryes he 



hereby not any infrigned, MATTHIAS NICOLLS, Sec r - 



Entered by John Archer, March 4th, 1669. a 



By these and other purchases John Archer, Esq., eventually became 

 seized in fee of 1,253 acres. Upon the 13th of November, 167 1, Francis 

 Lovelace, Esq., the Governor, issued the following letters patent erect- 

 ing the whole into an infranchised township or manor of itself to be 

 held by the feudal tenor of paying therefore yearly to the Duke of York 

 and his successors upon the first day of March, (St. David's Day,) when 

 demanded twenty bushels of good peas. 6 



THE ROYAL PATENT OF FORDHAM. 



Francis Lovelace, Esq., one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's Hon'ble Privy 

 Chamber, and Governor-General under his Royal Highness, James Duke of York 

 and Albany, and all his territories in America, to all to whom these presents shall 

 come, sendeth greeting : Whereas, there is a certain parcel or tract of land within 

 this government, upon the main continent, situate, lying and being to the East- 

 ward of Harlem River, near unto ye passage commonly called Spiting Devil, 

 upon which ye JVeio Dorp or village is erected, known by the name of Fordham —ye 

 utmost limits of the whole tract or parcel of land, beginning at the high wood 

 land, that lyes do North-west over against the first point of the main land to 

 the East of the Island Pepiriniman — there where the hill Moskuta is — and soe 

 goes alongst the said kill, the said land striking from the high wood land before 

 mentioned East South-east, till it comes to Bronk's, his kill ; soe Westward up 

 alongst ye main land to the place where Harlem Kill and Hudson River meet, 

 and then forth alongst Harlem Kill to the first spring or fountain, keeping to the 



a Albany Deed Book, vol. iil. pp. 127, 188. 



6 In Lewin's report on the Government of New York, agent and servant to his Royal High- 

 ness iu New York and Albany, &c , occurs the following: John Archer hath a patent granted 

 to Col. Lovelace of a manor call'd ffordham ffor which he payeth £3 15s Id p. ann ; '— N. Y. 

 CoL 1 >< jc vol. tti.,3 3. Gov. Andros's answer to Lewins's report, 24th Dec, 1681. "Mr. 

 Archer's and all other qnttt rents have been from time to time accompted to his Royall 

 Uighness as p. sd. accots."— N. Y. Col. Doc. vol. iii., 309. 



