Hercules Lent devised the patent in several parcels among his children and grandchildren by will in 17G6.' The name of Lent is still very common in the neighborhood of Peekskill to this day, and some of the name still own portions of the original tract. The 300 acre tract, which was of little importance, fronted on the inner and upper part of Peekskill bay, and became prior to 1732 the property of John Krankhyte. Both these pieces are shown, colored in pink, on the accompanying map of the Manor of Cortlandt.

The earliest traces of the settlement of any part of the Manor was that at the trading station with the Indians, which resulted in the erection of the stone fortified building, at the north side of the mouth of the Croton, which subsequently became the present Manor House. The largest Indian village was upon the high flat at the neck of the peninsula of Senasqua, or Tellers, or Croton Point, which unites it with the main land, and over which now runs the River Road. Hence for convenience sake the Dutch traders sought the landing place of the Indians, in the sheltered North side of the Estuary of the Croton, then an open bay without the sedge flats which now nearly fill it. Here too was subsequently established the ancient ferry and ferry house, as the population, and the traffic, up and down the Hudson, began to grow and increase. The next point of settlement was about the mouth of the Peekskill Creek, and in the tract called Ryke's Patent. The method ot settlement adopted by Van Cortlandt was the same as that, which was adopted by the early Dutch