CI2 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



or ought to have in any manner of way whatsoever as by Ihe said indenture in 



the hands and custody of the said Nicholas Bayard and the present elders of the 

 said Dutch church became seized and possessed of the premises aforesaid in trust 

 to the use and purpose aforesaid." 



The manor of Fordliam was subsequent)' confirmed to the Nether 

 Dutch Church within the city of New York by the royal charter, ninth 

 of William and Mary, May nth, 1696. 



On the 7th of Dec, 1724, a bill was filed in Chancery by the minis- 

 ter, elders and deacons, &c, of the Dutch church, against Lewis Morris 

 which shows that the orators were seized for many years of a certain 

 Manor of Fordham, situate, lying and being within the bounds of the 

 county of Westchester, to the eastward of Harlem river, near unto the 

 passage formerly called Spiten Divil, and now known by the name of 

 Kings Bridge, beginning at the high woodland that lys due north-west 

 over against the first point of the main-land to the east of Paperimiman 

 there where the kill Muskoota is, and so goes along the said kill ; the 

 said land stretching from the high woodland aforementioned, east, south- 

 east, until it comes to Bronck's kill, so westward up along the main-land 

 to the place where Harlem kill and Hudson's river meet, and then fur- 

 ther alongst Harlem kill to the fresh spring or fountain lying to the 

 south of Crabb Island, so eastward along Daniel Turneur"s land the 

 high woodland belonging to Thomas Hunt and then to Bronck's kill 

 aforementioned ; and also of and in a parcell of meadows number and 

 situate, lying and being on the said Harlem river near the Manor of 

 Fordham, beginning in the middle of a point to the north of Cregier's 

 house, beyond of above the small cove that lyes above the said house 

 and south-west on Harlem river, and extends further northward to the 

 highway where the wooden bridge lyes." Orator's title derived by a 

 patent given to John Archer by Governor Lovelace, Nov. 13th, 1671, 

 strengthened and supported by a former purchase made of Elias Doughty 

 of part thereof which he held by a former patent, of land in Westchester 

 to one Hugh O'Neal, an old Indian purchase bearing date 20th of Sept., 

 1669, a warrant of survey and actual survey and return thereof made 

 to Governor Lovelace prior to said purchase with sundry powers and 

 privileges in said pattent mentioned and expressed. Receipts mortgage, 

 to Steenwyck, dated Nov. 24th, 1676, which came into the hands of 

 Margareta, widow and executrix of Steenwyck, and that after death of 

 Archer, Sr., Esq,, of release became vested in John Archer, Jr., son and 

 heir of John Archer the patentee. That by deed of said Archer, dated 

 16th of October, 1685, Archer conveyed to Margareta Steenwyck in fee 

 all the said manor of Fordham. Margaretta being so seized, did soon 

 thence after intermarrying with Henrycus Selyns, the minister of the 

 Dutch church in the city of New York; who afterwards on the 1st 

 day of January, 1694, with said Margaretta, by a certain deed pole 

 gave and granted the manor of Fordham unto ye Elders of the Dutch 

 church to and for the use of the Dutch church, and said manor was con- 

 firmed to said church by a charter dated May nth 1696. That within 



