726 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



and every part and parcel thereof, with their appurtenances, unto the said Abraham 

 DePeyster, Philip Courtlandt, in right as aforesaid, John Hamilton, Catharine, his 

 wife, Isaac DePeyster and Ann, his wife, and Peter DePeyster, their Executors, 

 Administrators and Assignees, from the day next before the day of the date hereof, 

 for and during, and unto the full oue and term of one whole, from thenceforth, 

 next, and immediately succeeding and following, and fully to be complete and end- 

 ed, Yielding and Paying therefor one Pepper-Corn, in and upon the Feast day of 

 St. Michael the Archangel, if the same be lawfully demanded, To the Intent that, 

 by virtue of these presents, and by force of the Statute for transferring uses into pos- 

 session, they, the said Abraham De Peyster, Philip Courtlandt, in right ampior, 

 John Hamilton and Elizabeth his wife, Isaac DePeyster and Ann his wife, and Peter 

 De Peyster, may be in the actual possession of the said premises with their ap- 

 purtenances, and thereby be enabled to accept and take a grant and release of the 

 reversion and inheritance thereof to them and their heirs, to the proper use and 

 behoof of them, the said Abraham De Peyster, Philip Courtlandt, John Hamil- 

 ton and Elizabeth his wife, Isaac De Peyster and Ann his wife, and Peter De 

 Peyster, their heirs and assigns forever. In witness whereof the said parties have 

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

 above written. Signed, C. DE PEYSTER. 



Sealed and delivered in the presence of the several raisures 

 and interlineations, having been first made in the within in- 

 denture as certified by the said Cornelius De Peyster. 



Mary De Peyster. 



Jno. Chambers.* 



This Indenture made the eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one 

 thousand seven hundred and sixty-three between Abraham De Peyster, of the 

 city of New York, Esq. , Elizabeth Hamilton, of the city of New York, widow, 

 Isaac De Peyster, of the city of New York, gentleman, and Ann, his wife, and 

 Peter De Peyster, of the city of New York, gentleman, of the first part, and 

 Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, of the County of Westchester 

 in the province of New York, yeomen and their associates of the second part ; 

 whereas His most gracious Majesty King William the Third of glorious memory 

 by his Letters Patent under the great seal of the province of New York bearing 

 date the fourteenth day of February in the fourteenth year of his reign granted 

 unto Robert Waters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius De Peyster and others and to their 

 Heirs and assigns for ever, All that certain Tract of land in the County of West- 

 chester ; bounded northerly by the manor of Cortland, easterly with Bedford 

 line of three miles square, the White Field and Byram River, southerly by the 

 land of John Harrison, Rye line stretching to Byram River aforesaid and the 

 White Plains, and westerly by Bruncks River and the manor of Philipsburgh 

 (excepting out of the bounds aforesaid all the land within Richbell's Patent) 

 which said Tract is now called and known by the name of the West Patent ; and 

 whereas the said Cornelius De Peyster, one of the Patentees in the said Letters 

 Patent named by Indentures of Lease and Release bearing date the twenty -third 

 and twenty-fourth days of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 

 hundred and thirty-eight, reciting as therein is recited, did grant and convey 



a Copied from the original iu the possession of D. W. Smith, Kensico, N. Y. 



