Lastly, I do hereby Constitute, Declare and appoint my said Beloved Wife my Executrix together with my Brother Jacobus Van Cortlaudt, my Brother Brant Schuyler and my Cousin William Nicholls to be Guardians, Tutors and Overseers over my said children and to see that this my "Will relating to them and each of them be duly, fully and truly Executed, performed and accomplished according to the just, true and Genuing Intent and Meaning thereof. In Testimony whereof, I the said Testator have hereunto sett my hand and scale in the presence of the Witnesses whose names are under written the day, month and year first before mentioned.

Signed, sealed and declared to be The last Will and Testament of the above named Stephanus Van Cortland in the presence of

Tno. Wenham,

Rip Van' Dam, ,

The will of Geertruy or Gertrude, his wife, bears date Oct., 1718, and was proved. Upon the 23d of December, A. D., 1706, Oliver Van Cortlaudt, one of the devisees of Stephanus, published his last will and testament, in which he devised all his right, title and interest, of and into his portion, to his ten surviving brothers and sisters, by which they became seized in fee of Cortlandt's Manor as tenants in common.

In the year 1730, (November 13th,) the aforesaid children and devisees drew up articles of agreement for the division of the Manor. Upon the 29th of May, 1733, a division was made of that part of the Manor situated north of the River Croton. It was not, however, until Novem-