A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. II — Passage 76
[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] ing, rendering, and paying therefor, yearly and every year, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at our fort at New York unto us, our heirs and successors, the annual rent of £4 128. current money of our said province in lieu and stead of all former rents, services, dues, duties, and demands for the said lordship or manor of Philipsborough and premises. In testimony whereof we have caused the seal of our provmce of New York to be hereunto affixed. Witness Benjamin Fletcher our captain-general and governor-in-chief of our province of New York aforesaid, province of Penn-sylvania and county of New Castle, and the territory and tracts of land de-pending thereon in America, at Fort William Henry, the 12th day of June, in the fifth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1693. Frederick Philipse Esq., by his last will bearing date 9th of December, 1702, devised his lands in this town and part of Green-burgh to Frederick Philipse his grandson, born in Barbadoes ye only son of Philip, his eldest son, viz. " The Island of Papirinemin with the meadows ye toll and all ye lands and ro^adows called the Yonkers ■plantation, with all houses, mills, mill dams &c., COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 429 as also a piece of land in the mile square by me late bought of Michael Haw-don and all that tract or parcel of land exiending from the Yonkers patent or plantation to a creek called by the Indians Wysquaqiia and by the Christians William.