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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 23

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 177; Henry Brown, 113; Parsonage lot, 107; 2 Jacobus Dyckman, 6; Stephen Oakley, 291; Robert Reid, 141; John Lamb, 202; Robert Johnson and Lewis Ogdeu, 11)0, at Strawberry Hill; Cornelius P. Low, two lots, at the mouth of the Nepperhan, containing together 320} acres; David Hunt, 41; Mary Merrill, 14^; Archer, 181; Thomas Sherwood, 2; Margery Rich, 92; Isaac Post, 293; Jacob Post, 313; Elnathan Tay-lor, 99; John Lawrence, 248; William Crawford, 202; Benjamin Oakley, 05; William Hyatt, 89; John Devoe, 136; Frederick Van Cortlandt, 105; Jesse Husted,; and Samuel Lawrence, 300. -This lot, or glebe, already referred to in the history of the Philipse.", is spoken of in existiug documents of the last century as consisting of two bundled and even of two hundred and fifty acres. Here ii Is pot down at one hundred and seven acres. Upon inquiry and study of proof, we tbink it could never have been more. it; HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COCNTV. Among the names of tenants and purchasers of 1785 we recognize the following as still perpetuated in Yonkers, viz. : Archer, Baker, Barker, Bowne, Bre-voort, Brown, Burnett, Crawford, Devoe, Dyckman, Farrington, Fowler, F\>rohee, Haminond, Hart, Hunt, Husted, Hyatt, Johnson, Lamb, Lawrence, Lent, Oak-ley, Odell, Post, Reid, Reynolds, Rich, Sherwood, Smith, Taylor, Underbill. Valentine, Van Cortlandt, Vermilyea, Warner and Williams.