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. Lewis and her children. These lands, with all the territory above them on the north, as far as Croton River, and extending from the Hudson eastwardly to the Bronx, subsequently acquired by Philipse and his son from the Indians, were seven years later, on the 12th of June, 1693, erected into that mag-

5 Book III. of Deeds, p. 134, Albany.

''Lib. I., N. Y. Surv. Off., p. 234. He was a mere farmer and the inventory is but a list of farm stock and common house utensils. It, however, thus describes his farm, -- " Item, a tract of land and meadow purchased of Elias Doughty, with the dwelling-house, orchard and barne now standing on the said land, -- £100, 0, 0." It also mentions bis neighbor, "John Heddy, of Ycnkers, carpenter."

■ Book III. of Deeds, 139.

8 Book of Deeds, IV. 9.