THE TOWN OF WEST FARMS. 507 



cording to the direction of the law, although their said farms and habitations be 

 not included within this patent, to have and to hold ye said pared and tracts of 

 land, with all a. id singular the appurtenances and premises, together with the 

 privileges, immunities, franchises and advantages herein given and granted unto 

 the said John Archer, his heirs ami assignees, unto the proper use and behoof of 

 him, the said John Archer, and his heirs and assignees forever, ftdly, truly and 

 clearly, in as large and ample manner, and from and with such full and absolute 

 immunities and privileges as is before expressed, as if he held the same immedi- 

 ately from his majesty, the King of England, and his successors, as of the Manor 

 of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in free and common soccage, and by 

 fealty, only yielding, rendering and pajing yearly and every year unto his royal 

 highness, the Duke of York and his successors, or to such governor and gover- 

 ors as from time to time shall by him be constituted and appointed, as all ac- 

 knowledgement and quit-rent, twenty bushels of good peas, upon the first day of 

 March, when it shall be demanded. Given under my hand, and sealed with the 

 seal of the province of Fort James, in New York, on the island of Manhattan, 

 this thirteenth day of November, in the twenty-third year of the reign of our sov- 

 ereign lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, 

 France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and Anno Domini, 1671. 



FRANCIS LOVELACE. 

 "Michael Bastyexsex, 

 "Valextyx Claessex." 

 •"Done at Fort William Hendricke, on the 18th Oct., 1673." 



The following year, John Archer, Esq., laid claim to a neck of land 

 called Humock Island, commonly named Papiriniman, h which he asser- 

 ted he had by patent. 



At a council held in the village of New Haerlem, this 4th of October, 

 1673. 



Present: — The Governor-General and Councillor, Cornelius Steen- 

 wyck. 



The inhabitants of Fordham appear complaining in substance of the 

 ill-government of their landlord, John Archer, requesting that they may 

 be granted the nomination of their own Magistrates, as is allowed to all 

 the other inhabitants of this government. Whereupon, the aforesaid 

 John Archer being summoned to appear, the complaint is communi- 

 cated to him, who voluntarily declares that he desists from the govern- 

 ment, authority and patroonship of said town, reserving alone the 

 property and ownership of the lands and houses there ; according, there- 

 fore, to the said inhabitants the nomination of their own Magistrates, 

 which is confirmed to them by the Governor and Council, whereupon 

 the following minute is granted them : — 



a Albauy Rec. vol. xxiii. 2C-52. 

 b Sje Yonkers. 



