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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 357 words

"And in default of such Issue, male, of all my said sons, then I devise the remainder in fee of the three said fauns, Ac, unto my own right heir, male, Ac." " To his second son Abraham, he bequeaths his dwelling house and joined thereto belonging fronting Stone street, New York, wherein he now lives, Ac, "also all that last part of the fourteen farms called or known by the name of my north lott (No. G.) in the Manor of Cortlandt as the same as described in the map or survey from No. 1 to 7, also the farm where John Jurree Seer now lives on to contain 2!i0 acres adjoining to each other, Ac, on the same conditions as before mentioned from Abraham to Stephen, from Stephen to John and from John to Pierre, "all failing to his right heir, male.'' Three farms in the Manor of Cortlandt known as No'sS, 9 and 10. "To his fourth son Pierre, he devises all that my house and farm or lott of land described on the map or survey of the Manor of Cortlandt, known by the name of south lott (No. 1,) being the East River lott, from Teller's Point, extending all along Croton River together with the Perry-house and Kerry thereunto belonging, including the farm where David Brown now lives, and also a lott of land on the east side of Croton River in the Manor of Cortlandt, known by the lott (No. 1) now In possession of Peter Williams and the widow of Hendrick David, the whole as it Is conveyed to me also four farms in the Manor of Cortlandt in north lott (no. 6) No's 11, 12, 13 and 14." "And that all and every of my said four sons Stephen, Abraham, John and Pierre, and th» heirs, male, of their respective Bodvs, shall and may from time to time ard at all times hereafter at all tlting seasons in the year have lull and free liberty, leave and lvseuco to Hunt, Fish and Fowl near, about, in and upon Croton Piver, when and as often as they shall think fitting.