Middle lot No. 2 and 3, Gertrude Verplanck ; ditto No. 4, Elizabeth Skinner ; south lot No. 1, bordering the Croton river, John Watts; ditto Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, Philip Yerplank ; ditto No. 8, Gertrude Beeckman ; ditto No. 9. Susannah Warren. Subsequently the devisees and their heirs made other divisions,

A. U. 1784, Andrew Miller, sold to John Strang a farm in west range of north lot No. 2, consisting of 200 acres which he purchased of John Watts.

Gertrude Beeckman bequeathed lot No. 8, south of the Croton to her two nephews Philip and William Ricketts van Cortlandt, as tenants in common in fee tail.

Stephen van Cortlandt with his wife Catalina Staats, in 1791 gave a release to Elvan Purdy, with the fee of a certain lot No. 3, heretofore called Gertrudd's horougli, being by division amongst the heirs of Stephen van Cortlandt, deceased, allotted to Gertrude, one of his daughters, late wife of Henry Beeckman, containing 15G acres.

The following receipts for rent prove the Purdys to have been tenants in common long prior to the above release. They also establish the early names of the town.

"Rec'd, Hanover, May ye lOih, 1760, by ye hand of Abraham Purdy, three pound in part for his farm rent and for the use of Col. Henry Beeckman, Esq., per me.

£3 0 0 "John Bryan."

" Received at Crompond, 16th Nov'r, 1786, per Mr. Elvan Purdy, one pound 135. in part of rent.

"Stephen van Cortlandt."