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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 125 (part 4)

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] To his son Adolphus he bequeathes the rest of his houses and the lands, tenements and hereditaments in ye county of Westchester, (to wit) all that tract of land lying at ye upper mills, beginning at a creek called by ye Indians Wysquaqua, and by ye Christians, WiUiam Portugue's creek, being ye bounds 324 HISTORY OF THE of ye lands hereby given to my grandson, and so running up Hudson's river to ye creek called Wegheandagb, where is built two grist mills, and from thence along ye said river to a creek called Keghtawan, or Croton river, or along that river or creek according to ye patent, then on an east line into ye woods as far as Bronck's river according to its course to ye lands herein be-fore discribed to my grandson aforesaid, as also ye moyety or equal half of a saw-mill with its appurtenances att Mamaroneck, late by me purchased of Dr. Selinus, &c., &c. To his daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus van Cortlandt, a house and ground in the city of New York, &c., also a mortgage of Dr. Henricus Selynus upon ye lands of John Richbell, deceased, 20 miles into ye country and to his daughter Annetje, ye wife of Philip French, a house and ground in the city of New York, and an estate in Berghen, New Jersey, Ac, &c.^ Dated 26th October, 1700, Adolphus Philipse, > ^ T ^ > Executors. Jacobus van Lortlandt. ^ By this will all that portion of the manor north of Dobb's Ferry, including the present town became vested in Adolphus or Adolph Philipse, second son of the devisee.