"To his son-in-law, Joseph Hadley, a pasture of three acres already laid out, (fcc, at or about the first spring, and all the meadow that is already divided, that is on this side the river above ye planting necky " To his three daughters two hundred acres of land each ;" "and to his brother's son, in England, Joseph Richardson, one hundred acres, if he come within the space of one whole year to receive it, and if he come not within the time prefixed it shall remain in Martha my wife's hands." "In conclusion, he constitutes and appoints his well beloved friends, William Richardson and Richard Ponton, both of Westchester, and Jonathan Hayward of Newtown, Long Island, overseers of his last will and testament, and that it is his whole will and testament after his decease, he witnesses it under his own hand the 16th day of November, 1679."

Signed John Richardson.

Upon the 12th of January, 16S6, Governor Thomas Dongan granted a jyatent to Thomas Hunt, sen., for all his land bounded on the east by the river Aquehung or Bronx, extending to the midst of the said river, on the north by certain marked trees and a piece of hammock, and on the west by a certain brook called Sackrahung, for the value of one bushel of good winter wheat."*

The following receipt appears to have been given for quit rent due on the above patent.

» Co. Rec. vol. ii. From the original \a the possession of Mr. Daniel Winship, Hunt's Point