A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 34
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] grace I trust to be saved and received into His eternal rest, through the merits of my dear Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ. My body, in hopes of a joyful resurrection, I commit to the earth, to be buried in such decent manner and form as my exe-cutrix hereafter named, shall think fit and convenient," (Sec. Touchinor the distribution of what real estate it hath pleased God to endow me withal in this world, I devise to my eldest son Johannes van Gortlandt : " All that neck and parcel of land on the east side of the Hudson River, at the entering of the highlands over against a certain place called Haverstraw, which is known to the Indians by the name of Meanagh, (Verplanck's Point,) separated from my other lands known to the Indians by the name of Appam-aghpogh, by a certain creek called Meanagh, and bounded on the other side by the creek that runs between my land and the land of Richard Abramse and others, together with the rneadows that lie on said neck : to have and to hold said neck of land and premises, with their appurtenances, to the said Johan-nes, my son, his heirs and assigns forever.