Home /
Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900) /
Passage
History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 74 (part 2)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Of these various sales, the first, to Archer, and the last, to Philipse and others, arc of special historic interest, each of the two being fol-lowed by consecutive developments which will demand particular attention... John Archer, the earliest sub-purchaser in the original Van der Donck tract, was, as already stated, an inhabitant of the Town oi Westchester. There is some uncertainty whether he was of English or Dutch origin. According to Bolton he was a descendant of Hum-phrey Archer of Warwickshire (i:>27-62), whose ancestor was Fulbert 1/ Archer, one of the companions of William the Conqueror; and from Humphrey the same authority carefully traces John's descent. Bol-