Peter's church, Perth Amboy ; his real name was MacGregor, and he was among those of that clan, proscribed after the rebellion of 1 7 1 5 ; he had received a superior education, and was endued with a strong mind ; having received holy orders, he was appointed missionary to Amboy, in New Jersey, 1721, and died rector, A. D , 1757."0
No. 4, Stephen Van Cortlandt ; No. 5, Mr. Melin ; No. 6, Stephen de Lancey; No. 7, Margaret Bayard, widow of Samuel Bayard; No. 8, Mr. John Schuyler ; this lot had been sold prior to partition. North lot No. 1, Andrew Johnson. We have previously shown that Verplanck's Point, (by the will of Stephanus Van Cortlandt) passed to his son Johannes or John, whose daughter Gertrude married Philip Verplanck.
In the year 1734 we find Philip Verplanck, of Cortlandt's Manor, and Gertrude his wife only daughter and heiress of Johannes Van Cortlandt, the eldest son and heir of Colonel Stephanus Van Cortlandt, late of the city of New York, deceased, and John Lent, of the said manor, in the other part, bargaining, selling, devising and leasing unto the said John Lent,
"All that certain neck or tract of land and meadow, situate, lying and being in the Manor of Cortlandt, being bounded on the east by the land commonly called Appemaghpogh, and a certain creek, Meanagh on the north by the land now belonging to Hercules Lent, and on the south and west by Hudson's River, containing 1000 acres, the lessee yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one pepper-corn on the feast day of St. Michael, the Archangel."6