Given under my hand, and sealed with the seal of the province at Fort James, in New York, on the island of Manhattan, this thirteenth day of November, in the twenty-lHrd year of the reign of our sovereign lord, Charles the Seccond, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and Anno Domini, le"! Francis Lovelace.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. .. - 323

Sometime prior to 1672, Daniel Turner purchased forty morgen of land from tlie Indian sachems Shahash Panazarah and others, bounded west by Harlem River, &.c. This sale is presumed to have embraced Devoe's Point, called by the aborigines Nuasin. On the 15th of June, 160S, Richard Nicoll, governor of the province, confirmed to the above grantee all that parcel of land " situated upon the maine, lying and being to the north of Broncks's land, beginning at the mouth of 3Iaen7ieppis-ki!l, (now known as Cromwell's Creek,) and goes into the woods the depth of fifty rods, containing 80 acres," (fcc. &c.

Upon the restoration of the Dutch in 1673, we find the inhabitants of Fordham, petitioning at a meeting of the governor-general, through counsellor Cornelius Steenwyck, in the village of New Harlem, 4th of October, ]673, -'upon which occasion the inhabitants of Fordha?n appeared and complained, in substance, of the bad management of their lord, (land-heer,) John Archer, soliciting that they might be permitted to make the nomination of their own magistrates. &c. as is granted to all the other inhabitants under this government ; on which, the aforesaid John Archer, being summoned, this complaint was communicated to him, who voluntarily declared that he abdicated all authority and patronage over the villages, reserving only to himself the property of the lands and houses there, and permitting the said inhabitants the nomination of their own magistrates, winch was confirmed by the governor and council.