" All that certain neck or tract of land and meadow, situate, ]3dng and being in the manor of Cortlandt, being bounded on the east by the land commonly called Appamaghpogh, and a certain creek, called Meanagh, on the north by the land now belonging to Hercules Lent, and on the south and west by Hudson's River, containing 1000 acres, the lessee yielding and paying therefor the yearly rent of one pepper-corn on the feast day of Saint Michael, the Archangel."*

Above Verplanck's Point extended the patent of Hercules Lent, bounded on tlie north by Magregaries' creek.

Lot No. 9 was the property of Andrew Johnson, Esq. ; No. 10, the portion of Gertrude Beeckman : this lady possessed the highlands north of the Peekskill creek.

The division of the Manor, east of the river lots in this town, consisted of lot No. 1, distinguished by the name of the south lot, the properly of Philip van Cortlandt, Esq. ; also, north lot ISo. 1, ihe property of Andrew Johnson, Esq. No. 1, south of the Croton, belonged to Philip van Cortlandt, from whom it passed to the Hon. Pierre van Cortlandt. The following advertisement, dated March the 18th, 1762, relates to the sale of the above lot. " Conditions of sale of south lot No. 1 : 978 acres of land situated in the south-west corner of Cortlandi's manor, and corner of north lot No. 6, belonging to the estate of Philip van Cortlandt, Esq., deceased, above mentioned, sometime posted in the New York Gazette, and now to be sold at public vendue, pursuant to an act of General Assembly, passed for that purpose and agreeable to a map hereunto annexed. Pierre Van Cortlandt, surviving executor of Philip, deceased, will give a title agreeable to the act of Assembly, &c.