France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, &c, and in the year of our Lord Christ, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight, between Cornelius Depeyster, of the city of New York, merchant, of the one part, Abraham Depeyster. of the same city, merchant ; Philip Courtlandt, of the city of New York, aforesaid, merchant, in right of Catherine, his wife, John Hamilton, of Perth Amboy, in the Province of New Jersey, Esq., and Elizabeth, his wife, Isaac Depeyster, of the said city of New York, merchant, and Ann, his wife, and Peter Depeyster, of the said city of New York, merchant of the other part. Whereas, his late Majesty, King William the Third, by his Letters Patent, under the broad

Sx B J. 29, 1743.

Here lies the 4 body of SAMUEL BANKS, who departed this life the 19th of September, 1773, in the 86th year of his age.

A. H. N. 1776.

LEASE AND RELEASE.

a Fonr towns abut npon Clapp's ridge In tue south-east corner of North Castle. b Stafford's Gazetteer. e Dlsturnell's Gazetteer.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

seal of the Province of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and one, did grant unto Robert Walter, Leigh Atwood, the said Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcote, Matthew Clarkson, John Cholwell, Richard Slater, Laucaster Symes, Robert Lurting and Bame Cosens, a certain tract of land, situate and being in the county of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Courtland, easterly with Bedford line, of three miles square, the Whitcfield and Byram rivers; southerly, by the land of John Harrison, Rye line, stretching to Byram river, aforesaid, and the White Plains, and westerly by Brunk's river and the manor of Philipsburg. Excepting thereout all the lands in Richbald's Patent; as in and by the said written Letters Patents, relation being thereunto had may more fully and at large appear.