The first of these " division " contained all the Manor West of the east bonds of North lot No. I. and South lot No. I., North of the Croton River, and West of the West bounds of lot No. 8 on the South of the Croton. The second division, lay east of the first, and West of the West bounds of North lot No. 8 and South lot No. 8, and West of the East bounds of lot No. 10 South of the Croton. The third was all the rest of the Manor East of the East bounds of the second division.^ This act also provided for the annual election of " Overseers of Roads " in each of the above divisions and specified their powers and duties.'
In all these elections, and public actions under the foregoing laws, the inhabitants of the Krankhyte 300 acre tract, and of Ryke's Patent were included, being political portions of the Manor of Cortlandt, although the fee of the soil was in the owners of the patents solely. Several of the Manors in New York likewise embraced within their limits in the political sense, small parcels of land not owned in fee by their proprietors, in the same way. By 1770 the people in Ryke's Patent had so increased in number, that an act was passed on the 27th of January in that year, for their special benefit which provided " that for the better defraying the common and necessary charges of Ryke's Patent in the Manor of Cortlandt in Westchester County," the Freeholders thereof should elect on the first Tuesday in every April, one Supervisor, one Constable, one Assessor, one Poor-Master, two Fence-Viewers, one Pound-Master, and one or more Surveyors of Highways, with all the powers and