736 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



square. In the year 1769, Stephen de Lancey and Hannah, his wife, 

 conveyed to the Rev. Epenetus Townsend certain lands situate in 

 North Lot, No. 10. The same year, also, part of farm No. 12, in Great 

 North Lot, No. 10, to Nathaniel Delavan. Prior to the year 1775, 

 Stephen de Lancey re-leased certain lots in the town to the Carpenters, 

 Baileys, Rodgers, Lobdells, Nashs, Purdys, Nortons, Tituses and Rey- 

 nolds, &c, &c. 



The following items are taken from the rent rolls of the De Lancey 

 family : — 



"Lot No. 25, Timothy van Scoy, tenant of one-half, for cash due for rent, 

 January ye 1st, 1773, <£1 5s." . . . "No. 12, Crow Hill lot leased to Hannah Del- 

 avan, wife of Abraham Delavan, to cash due for rent, January ye 1st, 1774, the 

 sum of £4," &c, &c. 



Upon the first of Jannary, 1795, Stephen de Lancy, (sometimes called 

 Stephen J., conveyed all the remainder of his estate in this town to his 

 brother, John Peter de Lancey, of Mamaroneck. The last will and 

 testament of Stephen de Lancey, who died late in 1795, commences in 

 the following manner : — 



" In the name of God, Amen, I, Stephen De Lancey, a reader of divine ser- 

 vice of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Beeckmantown, in the county of 

 Dutchess, and State of New York, esquire, and first principally I do commit my 

 precious immortal, and never-dying soul into the hands of my most merciful 

 Creator, whose I am and whom I desire to serve in the Holy Gospel of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ,Who giveth life and health and all things ; hoping, trusting, and re- 

 lying only on the most meritorious satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ, before 

 whose dreadful tribunal I and all mankind must appear and give a strict account 

 of all their works, whether they be good or whether they are evil, and Who, I 

 trust and am persuaded, shed His most precious blood on the altar of the cross 

 for my eternal salvation, &c, &c. In conclusion, he desires his body may be 

 buried under the chancel of the church at Beeckmantown, unless his brother 

 should order otherwise,'' &c.« 



John Peter De Lancey, by his last will, dated the 28th of January, 1823, 

 devised all his farms and lands at North Salem, in fee (subject to the 

 leases of the same) to his three daughters, Elizabeth Caroline, Martha 

 Arabella and Susan Augusta De Lancey, wife of James Fenimore Coop- 

 er, Esq. From them, their father, or their uncle, Stephen De Lancey, 

 the title, to all the lands in this town, except in the " oblong," is derived. 

 Prior to 1731, that part of the township of Salem called " North Salem/' 

 consisted only of a tract of land about four miles square, the same being 

 a part of Courtland's Manor. Subsequently that portion of the oblong 

 lying east of it, was also included in the township of North Salem, thus 



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