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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I

Bolton, Robert Jr. A History of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Alexander S. Gould, 1848. Passage 690 of 1133 252 words

Also he devises to his grandson, Frederick Philipse, the negroes at ye Yonckers plantation, a negro man called Harry, and wife and child, a negro called Peter, &c., and ye boat Yoncker, with her furniture, apparel and appurtenances, and ye equal half of all ye cattle, horses and sheep upon and belonging to ye plantation at ye upper mills, &c., &c. Provided always and I do hereby declare my will, mind, and true intention, that 1 give ye lands, hereditaments and their appurtenances, extending from ye Yonckers plantation to William Portugue's creek, and so to Broncks's river, to my said grandson with this restriction and condition that it is in lieu of a tract of land called Cinquesingte, purchased long since and intended to be given to his father, my eldest son, soe that if att any time hereafter ye said Frederick Philipse, my grandson shall claim or recover this tract of land called Cinquesingte, that it is my will and desire that ye tract of land and appurtenances extending from ye Yonckers plantation to William Portugue's creek before described, shall devolve unto, and be vested in my said son Adolphus, his heirs, &c., &c.

To his son Adolphus he bequeathes the rest of his houses and the lands, tenements and hereditaments in ye county of Westchester, (to wit) all that tract of land lying at ye upper mills, beginning at a creek called by ye Indians Wysquaqua, and by ye Christians, WiUiam Portugue's creek, being ye bounds

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