[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Item : I do give, devise and bequeath all my other lands, honours, mills, tenements, pastures, meadows, and their appurtenances, and other real estate whatsoever and wheresoever it be, unto my eleven children, by name Johannes, Margaret, Ann, Oliver, Mary, Philip, Stephanus, Gertrude, Elizabeth, Catharine, Cornelia, and lo such other children as it shall please God to bless me with : to have and to hold unto them, their heirs and assigns, in equal proportions, according to their priority of birth, &c."=^ The above will was proved on the 2d day of June, A. D. 1700. The will of Gertrude, his wife, bears date October, 1718. Upon the tfie 23d of December, A. D. 1706, Oliver van Gortlandt, one of the devisees of Stephanus, published his last will and tes-tament, in which he devised all his right, title and interest, of and into his portion, to his ten surviving brothers and sisters, by wliich they became seized in fee of Cortlandt's Manor as tenants in common. In the year 1730, (November 13th,) the aforesaid children and devisees drew up articles of agreement for the division of the Ma-nor. Upon the 29th of May, 1733, a division was made of that part of the Manor situated north of the River Croton. It was not, however, until November the 4ih, 1734, that a final partition, and » Surrogate's Office, N. Y. Lib. II. 78. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 55 division, of the Manor took place between the surviving children and grandchildren of Col.