[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] We have previ-ously shown that Verplanck's Point, (by the will of Stephanus van Cortlandt,) passed t© his son Johannes or John, whose daugh-ter married Philip Verplanck. In the year 1734, we find Philip Verplanck, of Cortlandt's Ma-nor, and Gertrude, his wife, only daughter and heiress of Johan-» The father and mother of Gen. Philip Schuyler. b Whitehead's East Jersey, under the Proprietors. 56 HISTORY OF THE nes van Cortland t, tlie eldest son and heir of Colonel Stephanus, late of the city of New York, deceased, and John Lent, of the said manor, on the other part, bargaining, selling, devising, and leasing unto the said Joiui Lent — " All that certain neck or tract of land and meadow, situate, ]3dng and being in the manor of Cortlandt, being bounded on the east by the land commonly called Appamaghpogh, and a certain creek, called Meanagh, on the north by the land now belonging to Hercules Lent, and on the south and west by Hud-son's River, containing 1000 acres, the lessee yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one pepper-corn on the feast day of Saint Michael, the Archangel."* Above Verplanck's Point extended the patent of Hercules Lent, bounded on tlie north by Magregaries' creek. Lot No. 9 was the property of Andrew Johnson, Esq.; No. 10, the portion of Gertrude Beeckman : this lady possessed the high-lands north of the Peekskill creek. The division of the Manor, east of the river lots in this town, consisted of lot No.