History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 394
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] There were other families not mentioned in the above that were also tenants and purchasers of the De Lancy lands, notably the Bakers, Howes, Nortons and Benedicts. The remainder of the lands unsold by Stephen De Lancy were devised by him to his brother, John i eter De Lancy, of Mamaroneck, Janu-ary 1, 1795. They were left by him, January 28, 1*23, to his three daughters, by whom they have in part been sold from time to time. That portion of the town known as the Oblong or Equivalent Lands was not embraced in the original Cortlandt Manor. It was a tract of sixty-two thou-sand acres, about a mile and three-quarters wide by about sixty-two miles long, set oil' by Connecticut to NORTH SALEM. 507 New York in May, 1731. On the 8th of June in that year fifty thousand acres were granted by John