THE TOWN OF YONKERS. 587 



Bridge, were the neighborhood called the Lower Yonckers, as to be 

 distinguished from the other Yonckers, the lands of Van der Kee, on 

 the Saw INI ill creek. a This distinction between the lower Yonckers and 

 the upper, or as it was sometimes called, the little and the old Yonckers, 

 clearly points to two different proprietors. The first may have been Van 

 der Kee, as Mr. Benson suggests, (although there is nothing in the shape 

 of evidence to support it), and the second Adraen van der Donck, the 

 Jonkheer or "young gentleman.'' 



On the 2 2d of February, 1670, Joseph Hadley sold fifty acres called 

 George's Point, to Matthias Buckhout, who subsequently conveyed the 

 same, on the 2 2d January, 1694, to Frederick Philipse. 



"Upon the 10th of October, in the eleventh year of the reign of our 

 Sovereign Lord, William the Third, by the grace of God, of England, 

 Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c, and in 

 the year of our Lord Christ, 1699, occurs the following indenture : — 



"Between Frederick Felipse of the city of New York, merchant, of the one 

 part, &c, and Jacobus van Cortlandt, of the same city, merchant, of the other 

 part,witnesseth that the said Frederick Felipse, as well for and in consideration of 

 a certain sum of good and lawful money to him in hand paid, before the enseal- 

 ing and delivery of these presents, by the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, &c, &c, 

 hath given, granted, bargained and sold, conveyed, &c, uuto the said Jacobus 

 van Cortlandt, his heirs and assigns for ever, all that fifty acres of land— with the 

 appurtenances lying within the limits and bounds of the Yonckers plantation in 

 the county of Westchester, known by the name of ' Georges Point,' butted and 

 bounded, &c., &c. Also one acre and a half of meadow, with the appurtenances, 

 &c, together with twenty-five acres more of upland, with their appurtenances, 

 and the reversion and reversions and all the estate, right, title, claim and demand 

 whatsoever, of him the said Frederick Felipse, of, in, or into the said premises, 

 to have and to hold the several parcels of land and meadow, to the said Jacobus 

 van Cortlandt, &c, his heirs and assignees, forever. In testimony whereof the 

 parties to these presents have set their hands and seals, the day and year first 

 above written.'' 



This property is still vested in a descendant of Jacobus van Cort- 

 landt. 



On the 13th August, 1701, we find the Indians confirming the Van 

 Cortlandts' in their purchase : — 



"To all Christian people, and others to whom the presents shall come, Clause 

 Dewilt, Karacapacomont and her son Nemerau, sendeth greeting : — 



'•Know yee, that wee, the said Clause Dewilt, Karacapacomont, and Nemerau, 

 native Indians and former proprietors of a certain tract of land, lying in the 

 county of Westchester, in the province of New York, in America, commonly 

 called and known by the name of the old Younckers, uow in possession of Jacobus 

 a Bias >a's Mem. of >T. Y., 56. 



