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.'

These were all the sales of Doughty in the southern part of the Patroonship. At the mouth of the • "Nepperhaem River," he sold on the 18th of August, 1670, to Dame Margaret Philipse, on behalf of her husband, Frederick Philijjse, and Thomas Lewis, for £150, the south half of that River with its mill privileges, and also about three hundred acres of land adjoining it. The north half of the river and its mill privileges he sold to one Dirk Smith, reserving the right to repurchase if Smith wished to sell. This right Doughty conveyed to Philipse and Lewis, who subsequently effected the re-purchase.**

Two years after, and on September 29th in the year 1672, Frederick Philipse, Thomas Delavall and Thomas Lewis, bought of Elias Doughty all the remainder of Colen-Donck, each taking a third interest, the whole amounting to seven thousand seven hundred and eight acres. Delavall devised his share ten years later, in 1682, to his son John, and he, together with Frederick Philipse and Mrs. Geesie Lewis, the widow of Thomas Lewis, obtained a patent for the whole on the 19th of February, 1684. Frederick Philipse bought out Delavall's share on the 27th of August, 1685, and on the 12th of June, 1686, also acquired by purchase that of Mrs.