[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 5, Pelah Mead, three hundred and eighty-nine acres. Nos. 4, 5 and 6 extend north to the Muscoot River. Nos. 7 and 8, north of 4, 5 and 6 and the Muscoot River, are marked respectively to Abijah Crossey, two hundred and seventy acres, and Obadiah Purdy, two hundred and forty-eight acres. No. 9, north of 8, John Brown, two hundred and fifty-three acres. Daniel Durgee is marked as in pos-session of lot No. 10, two hundred and thirty acres, which borders east on Croton River, below the mouth of Plum Brook. No. 6 (on the old map No. 17) is marked to Joseph Griffin, three hundred and eighty-nine acres, on which was a house. This tract borders east on the Croton River, and extends to the mouth of the Muscoot. These persons were doubtless lessees under Van Cortlandt, and later, perhaps, became pur-chasers. On March 20, 1762, Andrew Johnson leased to John Hempstead a certain lot of land, lying and being at Plum Brook, in the Manor of Cortlandt, which was then known as farm No. 4, west range, and a part of Great Lot No. 7. This was again leased to the same by the heirs of Johnson, after the latter's death. The lease is dated June 24, 1772. John Hemp-stead was one of the first settlers of the town under the Van Cortlandt heirs, and the site of his house, though nearly obliterated, can yet be discerned on the central ridge of the town. His descendants still live in the town in the persons of his great-great-grand-children, Mrs. C. E. Culver, Mrs. C. A. Perry, Mrs. D. C.