736 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

square. In the year 1769, Stephen de Lancey and Hannah, his wife, conveyed to the Rev. Epenetus Townsend certain lands situate in North Lot, No. 10. The same year, also, part of farm No. 12, in Great North Lot, No. 10, to Nathaniel Delavan. Prior to the year 1775, Stephen de Lancey re-leased certain lots in the town to the Carpenters, Baileys, Rodgers, Lobdells, Nashs, Purdys, Nortons, Tituses and Reynolds, &c, &c.

The following items are taken from the rent rolls of the De Lancey family : --

"Lot No. 25, Timothy van Scoy, tenant of one-half, for cash due for rent, January ye 1st, 1773, £1 5s." . . . "No. 12, Crow Hill lot leased to Hannah Delavan, wife of Abraham Delavan, to cash due for rent, January ye 1st, 1774, the sum of £4," &c, &c.

Upon the first of Jannary, 1795, Stephen de Lancy, (sometimes called Stephen J., conveyed all the remainder of his estate in this town to his brother, John Peter de Lancey, of Mamaroneck. The last will and testament of Stephen de Lancey, who died late in 1795, commences in the following manner : --

" In the name of God, Amen, I, Stephen Dc Lancey, a reader of divine service of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in Beeckmantown, in the county of Dutchess, and State of New York, esquire, and first principally I do commit my precious immortal, and never-dying soul into the hands of my most merciful Creator, whose I am and whom I desire to serve in the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,Who giveth life and health and all things ; hoping, trusting, and relying only on the most meritorious satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ, before whose dreadful tribunal I and all mankind must appear and give a strict account of all their works, whether they be good or whether they are evil, and Who, I trust and am persuaded, shed His most precious blood on the altar of the cross for my eternal salvation, &c, &c.