[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Taking the tracts in geo-graphical order from the north, those fronting on the Hudson and going back to the Saw-Mill River only were the Sintsinck (Sing Sing) tract, the Pocantico (Tarrytown) tract, the Bissightick (Irvington) tract, the Weckquaskeck (Dobbs Ferry) tract, the Upper Yonkers and Lower Yonkers tracts, while that begin-ning from the upper line of Yonkers and embracing all land between the Saw-Mill and Bronx, all the way up to the Croton River, was the Nepperhan tract. Having thus given all these tracts in their geograph-ical order, we shall now speak of them more fully, and in the order of their acquisition. 1. The Upper Yonkers tract, containing seven thousand seven hundred and eight acres, bounded on the north by the rivulet Mackackassin and the;/reaf stone (a stone still lying on the Hudson River bank Bad marking the point from which our northern Yon-kers boundary starts eastward), on the east by the Bronx and the land of Francis French & Co., on the south by land of William Betts, George Tibbetts and Thomas Hadley, and on the west by the Hudson River. A patent for this " Upper Yonkers " was ob-tained from Governor Dongan by John Delaval (son and heir of the original purchaser, Thomas Delaval), Frederick Philipse and Geertje Lewis (executrix of Thomas Lewis), February 19, 1685. Philipse bought the share of Delaval August 27, 1085, and that of the heirs of Lewis June 12, 1686. So by the last date he had possessed himself of all Upper Yonkers. 2.