This indenture, made the twenty-ninth day of December, in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-four, between James de Lancey, Esq., chief justice of the province of New York, of the one part, and Stephen de Lancey, son of the said James de Lancey, of the other part, witnesseth, that the said James, for, and in consideration of the natural love and affection which he, the said James, beareth to his said second son Stephen, doth for him and his heirs covenant and grant to and with the said Stephen and his heirs, that the said James and his heirs shall and will, from henceforth, stand and be seized of, and in all that tract or parcel of land in the manor of Cortlandt, in the county of Westchester, distinguished and known by the name of nortii lot number nine, and north lot number ten, whereof the said James is now seized of an estate in fee simple, to the use of the said James for and during the term

a Van der Donck's Hist, of the New Netherland?, N. Y. Hist. Soc vol, i. 168. b For a full account of this family, see Mamaroneck.

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of his natural life, and after his decease to and for the use of his said son Stephen for and during the term of his natural life, and after his decease to the use and behoof of the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, and for default of such issue, to the use and behoof of the right heirs of him, the said James, for ever --