662 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



in Jefferson valley. On the southern side of the hill lies the Indian 

 burying ground. The remains of several Indians were disinterred some 

 years ago, near the residence of the late Dr. Hosea Fountain, 

 whose property bordered on the lake. " Indian Hill " is also memorable 

 as the last spot inhabited by a band of Aborigines in Westchester County. 

 On the eastern border of the town is situated the Indian cemetery of 

 " Appamoghpogh," or as it is now called " Amawalk." 



Upon the partition of the manor of Cortlandt, among the heirs and 

 devisees of De Heer Stephanus van Cortlandt, in the year 1734, the 

 following allotments were made in this town : — 



North lot No. 2, Andrew Miller; ditto, No. 3, Gertrude Beeckman; 

 ditto No. 4, Cornelia Schuyler and her husband, Col. John Schuyler. 

 This gentleman was the father of the illustrious Gen. Philip Schuyler, of 

 the Revolution. Middle lot No. 2 and 3, Gertrude Verplank; ditto 

 No. 4, Elizabeth Skinner; South lot No. 1, bordering the Croton river, 

 John Watts; ditto, Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, Philip Verplank; ditto, No. 8, Gert- 

 rude Beeckman ; ditto, No. 9, Susannah Warren. The latter was the 

 wife of Admiral Sir Peter Warren, K. B., who died in 1752; he com- 

 manded the expedition which captured Louisburg, capitol of the Island 

 of Cape Breton, in 1745. They were married in 1731, lost two lovely 

 children, Peter and Elizabeth, in 1746 or 7, but left issue three daugh- 

 ters ; first, Ann, who married Lt. Gen. Charles Fitzroy, (second son of 

 Lord Augustus Fitzroy, and grand-son of Charles, second Duke of Graf- 

 ton), first Lord Southampton in 1758; secondly, Charlotte Warren, who 

 married Willoughby Bertie, fourth Earl of Abingdon, in 1768; thirdly, 

 Susan Warren, who married Gen. William Skinner. a 



Subsequently the devisees and their heirs, made other divisions. 



A. D. 1784, Andrew Miller sold to John Strang a farm in west range 

 of north lot No. 2, consisting of two hundred acres, which he purchased 

 of John Watts. 



Gertrude Beeckman bequeathed lot No. 8, south of the Croton to her 

 two nephews Philip and William Ricketts van Cortlandt, as tenants in 

 common in fee tail. 



Stephen van Cortlandt with his wife Catalina Staats, in 1791 gave a 



release to Elvan Purdy, with the fee of a certain lot No. 3, heretofore 



called Gertrude s borough) being by division amongst the heirs of 



Stephen van Cortlandt, deceased, allotted to Gertrude, one of his 



daughters, late wife of Henry Beeckman, containing 156 acres. 



a Heraldrlci Journal, Whittomoro, vol. m, l- r >r>. "Upon the 2!>th Jan., 1786, No. 19 wa* 

 sold to Mr. Gilbert Van Cortlandt, <>i Hew York, for £84, 60; bounded north-easterly by lands 

 ocrw, or late of the heirs of Sir Peter Warren, deceased : and south-easterly, by Furnace lot 

 containing about l"*'. acres, forfeited to the people of this state by the attainder of Wm. 

 Bayard. '—Ai»r. of sales of confiscated lands, White Plains, p. 8. 



