[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 0 On this stream a mill was erected by Lewis Morris in 1760, of which nothing remains but the mill dam. d A word of Saxon origin, and compounded of Ford (ford) ham (mansion.) 3?* 320 ■ HISTORY OF THE -" River, to the Dutch West India Company, A. D. 1639.^ In 1646, we find the whole of Fordham, as well as the Yoncker's land, in tlie possession of Adriaen van der Donck, whose widow Mary conveyed them to her brother, Elias Doughty. The fol-lowing sales appear under the hands of the latter in 1666-7 : "Know all men, by these presents, that I, Elias Doughty, of Flushing, do sell unto Mr. John Archer, of Westchester,^ his heirs and assignees, fourscore acres of land and thirty acres of meadow, lying and being betwixt Brothers'' River and the wa-tering place at the end of the Island of Manhatans; and if the land be not fit to cleare for the plow or hoe, this land is to lye together; and if there be not all such land together as there should, or if there should happen eight or ten acres of land that