[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The earliest grant bears the date of August 24, 1683, covering certain districts in the town of Cortlandt. June 17, 1697, William III. of England, conferred on Stephanus Van Cortlandt what are really feudal rights and made him feudal lord over the district comprising, it is said, more than eighty thousand acres, composing what has been called the Manor of Cortlandt. It began on the north line of the Manor of Phillipsburg, ran due 1 Possibly only the designation of the month of the river. " The map of the Manor of Cortlandt " (1734). ii. — 40 east twenty miles to the Connecticut line, thence on that line north ten miles and then west twenty miles to the Hudson River at Anthony's Nose. He was given authority to hold "one court-leet and one court baron," the patronage over all churches established or to be established, authority to levy taxes, and after twenty years to send one representative to the As-sembly of the province. Mines of silver and gold alone were assured to the crown. For these privileges he was to pay a yearly rental of forty shillings cur-rent money of the province. August 8, 161)9, he se-cured a grant from the Indians of the same tract as nearly as waiter boundaries could designate it.