[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] « Benson's Mem. of N. Y. 56.,." 4l6 HISTORY OF THE •■ " of our Sovereign Lord, William the Third, by the grace of God of England, Scotland, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, <fcc., and in the year of our Lord Christ, 1699, occurs the following indenture : Between Frederick Felipse of the city of New York, merchant, of the one part, &c., and Jacobus van Cortlandt of the same city, merchant, of the other part, witnesseth that the said Frederick Felipse, as well for and in considera-tion of a certain sum of good and lawful money to him in hand paid, before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, by the said Jacobus van Cort-landt, &c., &c., hath given, granted, bargained, and sold, conveyed, &c., unto the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, his heirs and assignees for ever, all that fifty acres of land with the appurtenances lying within the limits and bounds of the Yonckers plantation in the county of Westchester, known by the name of Georges Point, butted and bounded, &c., &c. Also one acre and a half of meadow with the appurtenances, &c., together with twenty-five acres more of upland, with their appurtenances, and the reversion and reversions and all the estate, right, title, claim and demand whatsoever, of him tlie said Frede-rick Felipse, of, in, or into the said premises, to have and to hold the several parcels of land and meadow to the said Jacobus van Cortlandt, &c., his heirs and assignees forever.