History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 208
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] band. The Tellers were descendants of a Dutch cler-gyman of some distinction, and one of the family, Andrea Teller, in lliTl, married Sophia, daughter of the Right Honorable Olott' Stevenson Van Cort-landt. The Teller heirs consisted of eight brothers and sis-ters, the children of Pierre Teller and Margaret Haines, his wife, whose names were as follows: Ku-uice and Miriam, who were twins, James, Solomon, Isaac, Daniel, Mary and Pierre. Eunice, its previously noticed, was the wife of Robert McCord and had one son, Pierre, who lives near Croton Landing. TheTice family, at Croton Landing, are descendants of Miriam Teller. Clarence Teller, of Croton Landing is the only descendant of Pierre Teller. Solomon Teller has one son at Sing Sing; the rest moved farther west in New York, most of them settling in Cayuga County. On August 24, 1683, the Honorable Stephenus Van Cortlandt obtained from the Indians a deed to the territory of Meahagh (Yerplanck's Point), and the lands lying east thereof, called Appamagpogh, and subsequently, by further acquisition, swelled his pos-sessions to a total of eighty-six thousand two hundred and thirteen acres.