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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. 317 words

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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of ye lands hereby given to my grandson, and so running up Hudson's river to ye creek called Wegheandagb, where is built two grist mills, and from thence along ye said river to a creek called Keghtawan, or Croton river, or along that river or creek according to ye patent, then on an east line into ye woods as far as Bronck's river according to its course to ye lands herein before discribed to my grandson aforesaid, as also ye moyety or equal half of a saw-mill with its appurtenances att Mamaroneck, late by me purchased of Dr. Selinus, &c., &c. To his daughter Eva, wife of Jacobus van Cortlandt, a house and ground in the city of New York, &c., also a mortgage of Dr.