The Great Patents were much more numerous, but together not so extensive in area. These latter and the Borough-Town of Westchester, with a few small original grants, formed the rest of the county as it was originally. The lower part of the Equivalent lands " or " The Oblong," received in settlement of a boundary dispute from the colony of Connecticut was not added to the county till the year 1731, and this too, was then embraced in a single Great Patent.

The ^lanors were those of " Cortlandt," " Scarsdale," ' Pel/tarn," " Jlorrisania," " FonlhaM," and " Philipseborouijh," or as it was, and is, usually written and pronounced " Philipseburgh." Of these, Cortlandt, and Philipseburgh, were much the largest. It will give a correct idea of the great extent and thoroughness of the manorial settlement of Westchester county, as well lis the satisfactory nature of that method of settlement to its inhabitants, although a surprise, probably, to many readers, when it is stated that in the year 17G9, one-third of the population of the county lived on the two Manors of Cortlandt and Philipseburgh alone. The Manors of Fordham, Morrisania, Pelham and Scarsdale, lying nearer to the city of New York, than these two, and more accessible than either, save only the lower end of Philipsburgh, were, if any thing, much more settled. It is safe to say that upwards of liveeighths of the people of Westchester County in 1769 were inhabitants of the six manoi-s that have been named. As the people upon the manors were Iree of general jury duty the fact threw upon the rest of the county an increased burden. The ' Burgess ' (or Representative) of the "Borough of Westchester" in the Assembly in 17G9, was John de Lancey of Rosehill, Westfarms, of the second, or Westfarms, branch of that family, being the second son of Peter de Lancey of Rosehill, Westfarms, and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Governor Cadwallader Golden.