History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 24
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the manor property that lay within the limits of the present city of Yonkers. We come now to the special disposition and history of that object of deepest in-terest, the manor-house. This was put up by the commissioners and sold on the 9th of September, with three hundred and twenty acres of land, to Cornelius P. Low, a New York merchant, for fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty pounds.1 Mr. Low never occupied it, but conveyed it on the 12th of May, 178(J, to William Constable, also a New York merchant. 1 The following is from the records of the Bale of this html by Isaac Stoutenburgh and Philip Van Cortlandt, OOtnmlBBlODBn of forfeitures : "Sold to Cornelius P. Low, of New York, Gentleman, for fourteen thousand five hundred and twenty [suinds, all that certain mansion house, mills, stables and farm or |uircel of land, situate, lying, aud being in the.Manor of I'hilipshiirgh, Comity of Wcstehe-tor and State of New York, know n mid distinguished heretofore as the place of resi-dence of the late Kiedcrick l'hilipse, Ksip, lieing hounded westerly by Hudson s Itivi r, southerly by land in possession of the widow ltich, easterly by land sold to David Hunt and the run of water called the Saw-Mill Kiver, and a lot of land in the possession of Archer, ami northerly by laud sold to Kobert Johnston,— containing within said limits three hundred and twenty ai res, — reserving anil excepting out o'