a TTpon the 8th of Sept., 177", Stephen De Lancey leased farm No. 8. in Lot No. 10, containing 176 acres, to Nathaniel Delavan, for the term of 99 years, who assigned the same to John Knox in 1788. This farm, known as the " Knox farm, ' was held by the De Lanceys until the lease expired by itsown limitation in lS74,a portion of the same continuing in the" possession of the descendants of John Knox, as tenants, till that time. Iu 1S75 the fee was sold by the De Lanceys to Harrison Byington.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

38, and parts of 29 and 78 of that grant. On the 8th day of June, 1749, James Brown, then of Norwalk, Conn., sold to Solomon Close, of Greenwich, Conn., for one hundred and sixty-three pounds, current money of New York, " a tract of land which is part of the southermost ten miles of said oblong, and is situated north of and near unto the pond called and known by the name of Long Pond, and is bounded as follows, viz : Beginning at Jonah Keeler's northwest corner and running south seventy-seven and a half degrees west, one hundred and twenty rods, then south twelve degrees and a half west, three hundred and twenty-five rods: -- then north seventy-seven and a half degrees east one hundred and eighty rods : -- then north, eight degrees east, three hundred and twenty-five rods ; the whole containing 326 acres, be it more or less; botinded north by Daniel Sherwood's land; west by the twenty mile line ; south by Common land; and east by Jonah Keeler's land."0