590 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



year of our Lord, 1682, amongst other things did devise unto John Deloval his 

 only son, all that his interest in the aforementioned land and premises, his one 



full, equal and certain third thereof, as by the said codicil in writing, relation 

 being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear; and, whereas, the 

 Hon. Col. Thomas Dongan, late Gov. of our said province &c., and as by a cer- 

 tain died or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province etc., and bearing 

 date the 19th of Feb., in the year of our Lord, 1684-5, pursuant to the authority 

 iu him then residing, for the consideration therein expressed, did further grant, 

 ratify and confirm, unto the said Thomas Deleval, Frederick Philips, Geertje 

 Lewis, relict of the said Thomas Lewis, due their heirs and assigns, all the afore- 

 said tract and parcel of laud beginning at a small rivulet known and called by the 

 Indians, Makakassin, from thence into the woods due east by a great rock stone 

 and a lyne of marked trees, to Bronx's river, and thence by said river, four miles 

 and something more, to a marked white oak tree upon the middle of a great ledge 

 of rocks, which is the north-east corner of the land of Francis French & Co., in 

 the mile square formerly sold out of the aforesaid patent, then by the said land, 

 west, 35 deg. northerly, 1 mile or 80 chains from thence east 35 deg. southerly 

 to Bronx's river to a marked tree, which is the south-cast corner of the mile 

 square, excepted out of the said patent, from thence by Bronx's, his river, 89 

 chains to a marked tree, which is the north-east corner of Wm. Betts and George 

 Tippets, and then by a certain lyne of marked trees due west 30 chains to the 

 marked tree or south-east corner of the purchase of John Heddy, then due N. 34 

 chains, from thence due west by their purchase, 90 chains to the north-west cor- 

 ner of the 300 acres, then due south 16 chains to the north-west corner of the 20 

 acres purchased of John Heddy, thence and by the said land west 12 chains to the 

 north-west corner, then by the side of the kill, south 18 chains to the land of 

 Wm. Betts and George Tippetts, from thence by a lyne of marked trees due west 

 79 chains, to a white oak tree standing on the bank of Hudson's river, to the 

 south of Dog-wood brook 16 chains and \ and then northerly by the Hudson's 

 river to Nepperha, which is near the Yonkers mills, and so continue by Hudson's 

 river to the first mentioned small rivulet, Maccakassin, the whole being bounded 

 to the north with a lyne of marked trees and a great rock stone, to the east by 

 Bronx's river and the land of Francis French and Co., to the south by the land 

 of Wm. Betts, George Tippets and Thomas Heddy, to the west by Hudson's 

 river, containing in all 7,708 acres, together with all and singular the messuages, 

 tenements, buildings, barns, stables, orchards, gardens, pastures, meadows, mills, 

 mill-dams, runs, streams, ponds, rivers, brooks, woods, under-woods, trees, tim- 

 ber, fencing, fishing, fowling, hunting, hawking, liberties, privileges, herdita- 

 ments and improvements whatsoever, belonging or in any way appertaining, to 

 have and to hold all the aforementioned tract and parcel of land, with all and 

 singular the aforementioned premises, unto said John Deleval, Frederick Philips, 

 Geertje Lewis, their heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or patent 

 registered in our secretary's office of our province of New York aforesaid, relation 

 being thereunto had, may more fully and at large appear ; and, whereas the said 

 Thomas Deleval, by a certain deed of indenture, sealed with the seal, and bearing 

 date the 27th day of August, in the year of our Lord, 1685, did, for the consider- 

 ation therein mentioned, grant, bargain and sell, all that one full third part of all 

 and singular the said tract of land, afore recited, described and bounded within 



