" 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. In conclusion, he desires his body may be buried under the chancel of the church at Beeckmantown, unless his brother should order otherwise," (fee.

John Peter de Lancey, by his last will, dated the 28th of January, 1823, devised all his farm and land at North Salem, in trust to his two daughters, Elizabeth Caroline, and Martha Arabella de Lancey. A portion of these lands are still vested in the De Lancey family.

Prior to 1731 North Salem embraced six miles (in length) of a tract of land called the Oblong. Upon the 8th of June, 1731, his excellency, John Montgomerie, governor of the province, granted letters patent to Thomas Hawley and Company for all that " tract of land situated north of and near unto Long pond, which is bounded as follows, viz. : beginning at Jonah Keeler's^- north-west corner, and running north seventy-seven degrees and a half, containing three hundred and twenty-six acres." The Oblong, or east patent, was situated on the east side of the town.i' On the Sth of June, 1749, James Brewer purchased of Thomas Hawley and Company, fifty acres, bounded west by the twenty mile line, which he afterwards conveyed to Solomon Close of Greenwich.