92 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



In A.D. 1766, Hercules Lent, of Ryck's Patent, bequeathed his 

 lands by will to his children in the following order: 



"Item. I give and devise to my son Jacob, all that farm he now 

 lives on, containing 350 acres, lying and being, &c, on the south-east 

 part of a tract of land formerly granted to my father, Ryck Abramsen 

 Lent and others, which is commonly known by the name of Ryck's 

 Patent, and by the Indian name of Sackhoes, to have and to hold, &c. 

 To my son Hendrick, all that farm I now live on, containing 350 acres, 

 in the south-west part of Ryck's Patent. 



To my son Abraham, all that land he lives on, containing 350 acres, 

 adjoining to Hudson's river, and on the south side of the aforesaid de- 

 vised to my son Hendrick. 



To my grandchildren, Abram Lamb, Jane Lamb, Ira Lamb, Rachel 

 Lamb, and Rachel, wife of James Lamb, (the father and mother of the 

 said children,) all that part of my lands and meadows situate, lying and 

 being in Orange county, by Hudson's river, known by the name of 

 Stony Point. To my daughter Catharine, wife of Hendrick de Ronde, 

 lands by Stony Point." ft 



The descendants of the testator are still numerous in Cortlandt-town. 

 Hercules Lent, a great grandson of the patentee, holds a portion of the 

 patrimonial estate and occupies the family homestead. On the west 

 bank of the Annsville creek was situated the property of John Krankhyte, 

 consisting of 300 acres. 



The lands of Kitchawan, in this town, were conveyed by the native 

 Indians in 16S6, to Thomas Dongan, Captain General, and Governor- 

 in-chief, and Vice Admiral in, and over, the Province of New York and 

 territories depending thereon, in America, under his majesty James II, 

 by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, 

 defender of the faith, &c. 



To all whom these presents shall come, sehdeth greeting: Whereas, Emigent, 

 Askewans, Penarand, and Tagehkint, natives and principal owners of the tract 

 of land commonly called or known by the Indian name of Ketchtawong, did in 

 and by their certain deed or writing, under their hands and seals, bearing date 

 the day of August now last past, for the consideration therein mentioned, grant, 

 bargain, sell, alien, enfoeffe and confirme unto me the said Thomas Dongan, 

 my heirs and assigns, all that tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being on 

 the east side of Hudson's River, within the county of West Chester, beginning 

 at Kechtawong Creek, and so running along Hudson's river northerly to the 

 land of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, from thence to the eastwardmost end of the 

 said Van Cortlandt's land and from thence to a great fresh water pond called 

 Keakates, and from the said pond along the creek that runs out of the said pond 

 into Kitchtawan creek, and so downward on the south side of the said creek to 

 Hudson's river, including all the land, soil and meadow within the bounds and 



a Surrogate's Office, N. Y., No. 25, 337 



