assigns, and every of them ; that if the said John Archer, &c. &c.

recorded 25th of November, 1G70.

On the 20lli of November, 1684, Cornelias Steenwyck of New- York, merchant, and Margaretta his wife, made their last will and testament in the Dutch language. After the usual preamhle they express themselves to the following effect, viz. :

" We the said testators do declare that our earnest will and last desire is, that the general inheritance of us, the said testators, and between our heirs, shall he regulated after the form, manner, custom and practice of the Nether Dutch nation, and according to the articles made upon the surrendering of this place. And I, the said testator, with the free consent of my wife, by form of a legacy have given, granted, and legacied, as f, the said testator, by form of legacy, do give and grant by these presents, for and to the proper use and behoof of the Nether Dutch Reformed congregation within the city of New York, for the support and maintainance of their ministers ordained according to the church orders of the Netherlands, now at present here in being, or hereafter to be called, ordained, or to come, all the testator's right, property title, and heraditaments in and to the manor of Fordham, lying in the county of Westchester, together with all the lands, meadows, fields, woods, creeks, rivulets, and other waters, as also all the said testator's jurisdiction, right, title, action, and property, in and to the said manor of Fordham, with alfthe patents, deeds, .schedules, hypothets, mortgages, and other instruments of writing to the said manor of Fordham belonging or in anywise appertaining, in