For his vineyard purchase, 607 acres . . . 1 10 05 For his right in Dibble's purchase, 762 acres . 1 18 00

For his right in ye new purchase. . . . 2 13 04 The following document is extracted from a manuscript volume entitled " the receipt book of the quit rents of Bedford, paid from 1714 to 1767."

" Received of Mr. Jonathan Miller and Joseph Seely the sum of fifty pounds, proclamation money, being in full for ten years quit rent for the town of Beda Albany Book of Pat. No. vii. 271.

15 HISTORY OF THE

ford, to the Hoih of March last, witness my hand this 1st day of May, A. D. 1714.''* jCoO procl. money. T. Bverly, Coll.

Upon the 12th of October, 1705, John Dibble,^ by a bill of sale conveyed all his right, title and interest in the town of Bedford to Jacobns Van Cortland ; the latter individual subsequently became invested in the rights of Jonathan Miller on the 15lh of October, 1713, and Zacariah Roberts on the 13th of October, 1717.

Upon the 23d of June, 1736, '' the land to the north of Cross River was divided by lot among the twenty nine proprietors of Bedford." '

On the 10th of April, 1738, Jacobus Van Cortland devised ''all his tenements and hereditaments situated within the patent and township of Bedford to his son Frederick Yan Cortland of Yonkers and his three daughters ; Margaret, wife of Abraham Depeyster ; Anne, wife of John Chambers ; and Mary, wife of Peter Jay, the parties giving mutual leases and releases to one another."<^