[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] These great original proprietorships were, indeed, only nine in number, as fol-lows: (1) Cortlandt Manor, the property of Stephanus Van Cortlandt, which went after his death to his children and was by them pre-served intact for many years; (2) Philipseburgh Manor, founded by Frederick Philipse and retained as a whole by the Philipse family until confiscated in Revolutionary times; (3) Fordham Manor, estab-lished by John Archer, subsequently forfeited for mortgage indebted-ness to Cornells Steenwyck, and by him and his wife willed to the Nether Dutch Congregation in New York, which continued in sole ownership of it until the middle of the eighteenth century; (1) Morris-ania Manor, the old " Bronxland," built up into a single estate by Colonel Lewis Morris, by him devised to his nephew, Lewis Morris the younger, who had the property erected into a manor, and whose descendants continued to own it entire for generations; (5) Pelham Manor, originally, as established under Thomas Pell, its first lord, an estate of 9,1 C6 acres, but by his nephew John, the second lord, di-vided into two sections, whereof one (the larger division) was sold to