[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The record of the allotments of land by the various committees and of the subsequent deeds and bills of sale by individuals is entire, from the earliest time down to the close of the last century, when these doc-uments began to be recorded in the office of thecounty clerk. The boundaries of the land are in most cases indefinite and cannot now be traced except where streams form partial bounds. The oldest titles known to the writer are that of the farm of the late Henry Robertson, which his grandfather, William, bought ot Daniel Merritt in 1744, and the Jay estate, which came from Colonel Jacobus Van Cortlandt to his daughter Mary, wife of Peter Jay, after his death, in 1743. Van Cortlandt was one of the largest purchasers of laud from V the Indians (and from '•'*.. • ^nk the settlers as well), and 7 ^ \ \ ^tim^ ^ne latt'r years of his rVyt^^^W'vBtl-life consolidated his pur-chases in the north part of the town.