The De Lancey Patent, as it was sometimes called, embraced Great North Lot No. 9 and 10 of the manor of Cortlandt. These were again subdivided into thirty six smaller lots or farms. The whole was about four miles square. In the year 1769, Stephen de Lancey, and Hannah, his wife, conveyed to the Rev. Epenetus Townsend certain lands situate in North Lot No. 10. The same year also part of farm No. 12, in Great North Lot No. 10, to Nathaniel Delavan. During the year 1774, Stephen de Lancey released certain lots in the town to the Carpenters, Baileys, Rodgers, Lobdens, Nashs, Purdys, Nortons, Tiluses and Reynolds, &c. &c.
The following items are taken from the rent rolls of the De Lancey family.
" Lot No. 25, Timothy van Scoy^ tenant of one-half, for cash due for rent, January ye 1st, 1773, £1 55." '' No. 12, Crow Hill lot leased to Hannah Delavan, wife of Abraham Delavan, to cash due for rent, January ye 1st, 1774, the sum of £4," <fcc., <fcc.
Upon the 1st of January, 1795, Stephen de Lancey conveyed all the remainder of his estate in this town to his brother John Peter de Lancey of Mamaroneck. The last will and testament of Stephen dc Lancey commences in the following manner.
COUiNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 473
" In the name of God, Amen, I, Stephen de Lancey a reader of divine service of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Beeckmantown, in the county of DiUchess and state of New York, esquire, and first principally I do commit my precious, immortal, and never dying soul into the hands of my most merciful Creator, whose I am and whom I desire to serve in the Holy Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who giveth Hfe and health and all things, hoping, trusting, and relying only on the most meritorious satisfaction of our Lord Jesus Christ, before whose dreadful tribunal I and all mankind must appear and give a strict account of all their works, whether they be good or whether they are evil, and who, 1 trust and am persuaded, shed his most precious blood on the altar of the cross for my eternal salvation, 6cc., <Scc.