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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 74

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[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The new proprietor very soon began to receive and accept offers for portions of the estate. In March and September, 1667, he sold to John Archer, of Westchester, -fourscore acres of land and thirty acres of meadow," in the vicinity of the present Kingsbridge, " lying and beino' betwixt Brothers River and the watering place at the end of the Island of Manhatans." This was the beginning of a new manorial estate— the second of our country in point of antiquity. Douohtv also sold, Jnlv 6, 1668, to William Betts and George Tippett, his Sm-in-law (for whom Tibbet's Brook is named), about two thou-sand acres reaching from the Hudson to the Bronx, with its south-ern boundary starting just below Kingsbridge and above Archers lands and its northern passing through Van Cortlandt Lake along the north side of -Van der Donck's planting field." About the same time (June 7, 1668), for the value of a horse and £5, Doughty con-veyed to Joseph lladden some three hundred and twenty acres di-rectly north of Van der Donck's planting field, lying in unequal parts on both sides of Tibbet's Brook. In 1676 he sold a tract one mile square (still called -'the Mile Square"), bordering on the Bronx River to Francis French, Ebenezer Jones, and John Westcott. And finally on the 20th of November, 1671', all that remained of the Yonkers Land was disposed of in equal thirds to Thomas Delaval, Thonms Lewis, and Frederick Philipse.