The next month, on the 6th of July, 1668, Elias Doughty sold to George Tippitt and William Belts another piece of Colen-Donck, thus described : "A parcell of land& meadow to ye Patent to William Betts and George Tippett who are in jiossession of a part of the same land formerly owned by old Youncker van der Donck which runs west to Hudson's river & east to Broncks River, with all the upland from Broncks River south to Westchester Path, & so runs due east and north

1 The Neversink Highlands in New Jei-sey.

2Riker"s Harlem, i'S.

3 Deed Book III., 13S, Albany.

<Thls name, spelled also"Hi;adti'/," was really, it iihe\ieved,"Hdddeii."

beginning at the boggy swamp with" the liberty of the said Patent, & the southrnmost bound to run by the path that runneth or lyeth by the north end of the aforesaid swamp, & so to run due east to Broncks River, & due west to the meadow which cometh to the wading place." ^

From this George Tippett, or Tippits, as the name is spelled in his inventory made the 29th of September, 1675,* the stream is called Tippetts brook, which forms the van Cortlandt Lake, and, thence flowing southerly in a sinuous course, falls intoSpyt-den Duyvel Creek just east of Kiugsbridge. Its Indian name is Mosholu.

On the 1st of December, 1670, another part of the Patroonship, on its western side was sold by Doughty to Francis French and Ebenezer Jones of Ann Hooks Neck (now Pelham Neck), and John Westcott, of Jamaica, Long Island. This was the tract on the Bronx then, and now, so well known as Milesquare.'