[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 133 The deep seclusion of tlie woods bordering Plumb brook af-forded an agreeable haunt to the beaver, and here these industri-ous animals had constructed an extensive dam which long sur-vived their existence. Upon the partition of the manor of Cortlandt among the heirs of the Hon. Stephanus van Cortlandt in the year 1734, the fol-lowing allotments were made in this town; north lot, No. 5, Mrs. Margaret Bayard; ditto No. 6, Philip van Cortlandt; ditto, No. 7, Andrew.Johnston; part of north lot No. 8, Mr. Miller; south lot, No. 5, Stephen de Lancey; ditto No. 6, Stephen van Cort-landt; ditto half of lot No. 7, Stephen van Cortlandt; part of south lot No. 9, Mrs. Susannah Warren; ditto, No. 10, Stephen de Lancey; this lot has since been annexed to the town of New Castle by an act of the legislature, passed in 1846. Subsequent to the above division, we find the heirs of Stephanus van Cort-landt disposing of their respective rights in the same. On the 4th of June, 1760, Samuel Bayard granted to Hachaliah Brown, gentleman, of the town of Rye, "all that tract of land being in the northernmost part of the manor of Cortlandt, bounded north by the dividing line of Dutchess and Westchester, to the line of Philips's upper patent, west by lot of Andrew Johnston, south by bounds of Samuel Brown and east by Croton river." In the year 1762, Andrew Johnston conveyed to Hachaliah Brown, "all that lot of land, situate, lying and being in lot No.