[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 1), being the east town lott from Teller's Point extend-ing all along Croton River, together with the Ferry House and ferry thereunto belonging." " And that all and every of my said four sons, Stephen, Abram, John and Pierre, and the heirs male of their respect-ive Bodys, shall and may from time to time and at all times, hereafter at all fitting seasons in the year, have full and free liberty, leave and lysense to Hunt, Fish and Fowl near, about, in and upon Croton River when and often as they shall think fitting." 3 It is probable that Pierre now resided a part of his time at the Manor House, making it permanently his abode on the 1st of September. 174!). He had married Jo-anna, the daughter of Oilbert Livingston, and the grandchild of Robert, the first Lord of the Manor of Livingston. She was her husband's second cousin, De Heer Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Robert Liv-1 ilrs. Hughes, who had the portraits of the ancestors, Philip and Catharine De Peyster Van Cortlandt, with her daughter's assent gave them to the lieutenant-governor with the expressed condition that they were to beloug to the old Manor House. lie was then living at Peeks-kill, being, as he writes, "busied in repairing what the British and others have destroyed here, which is the reason that I am obliged to stay at Peekskill for tho present. * * My daughter Caty will take charge of them." This daughter, Mrs.