To have aud to hold, &c," "and also the said party, party of the 2nd part and their successors shall and may from time to time and at all times for ever hereafter peaceably and quietly have, hold, occupy, possess and enjoy, &c." James Cockcuoft.c

Lydia, widow of James Cockcroft, afterwards married Charles White. To prevent any claim of dower that might hereafter have arisen, Charles

a Sinw the publication of the first edition of this work in 1S-17, the above register has been mutilated and now commences with deaths, Aug. 29, 1741. [Epitok.]

b Amidst all th<' trimmings and changes the bilberry bush still flourishes ami bids fair to be a lasting boundary to God's acre.

c Couuty Rec. K« g. office Book of Deeds, Lib. Y. p. 253,

THE TOWN OF CORTLANDT.

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White and Lydia his wife gave the Dutch Reformed church on the 26th of December, 1799, a quit claim deed of which the following is an abstract :

"Between Charles White of the City of New York, merchant and Lydia his wife of the first part and Hercules Lent, Peter Goetschins, Abraham Lent, Martin Post, Ru hard Schiggel, Samuel Vessels, John II. Lent and Abraham Moutross, the elders and deacons of the Reformed Dutch church of the Manor of Cortlandt in the County of Westchester and State of New York of the second part, for the sum of one dollar grants, confirms, &c, all the land before recited in Cockcroft's deed to the elders and deacons to the said parties of the first part their heirs and assigns for ever a pew nearly square, sufficiently large enough to contain ten persons in the church now erected on the said premises and likewise that the small building or school house also erected on the said premises shall always be and remain for the use of a public school, &c."