[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Sound, and the shores of the Pilgrim fathers' home until, at last, a settlement of sturdy, honest, intelli-gent yeomanry was founded and maintained in the heart of the wilderness, which extended from the Connecticut River on the east to Hudson's River on the west. Both men and women were of that hardy class of pioneers who feared no toil, no hardship, no danger, worshipped truth and made a home which in part their descendants enjoy to-day. On April Gth, 1736, the south part of Great Lot, No. 6, which was allotted to Stephen Van Cortlandt, was surveyed by Philip Verplanck, and divided into twenty-two lots. A map of this tract made at the time shows that on lots 11, 12 and 22 there were houses. Lot 22 was at the junction of Plum Brook with "Grootan," — Croton River, — the lots 10 and 11, were west of the former, bordering on Great Lot No. 5. A later map, date unknown, shows the lots in pos-session of the following persons: No. 1, in the southwest corner of Great Lot border-ing on Croton River and Great Lot 5, Joseph Morten, two hundred and twenty-six acres. No. 2, north of No. 1, William Williams, one hundred and eighty-five acres. No. 3, a triangular tract, bounded west by 1 and 2, south by Croton River, Joseph Morten, three hundred and sixty-eight acres. No. 4, north of No. 2, Henry Sommers, one hundred and ninety-eight acres. This lot on the old map is marked No. 6. Nos. 4 and 5 on the old map are marked in the later map as >a>.