It is my will and appointment and Direction that upon a division of my s* houses, lands, and mills, and other Real Estate my sons according to their ])riority of birth shall have the first choyce, alwayes allowing to the value of those parts they shall choose that the respective parties and i)ersons of my children may be made Equall in worth one to another." Nothing is said as to how the daughters' shares should be chosen, which presumably was to be in the ordinary way, that is by lot. It is believed that when the first two divisions were made the sons first chose their parcels in the order of their births, and that the daughters drew lots for the remainder. But in whatever way these two divisions were made, the result was, that the following lots fell to the following named children--

To Philip Verplanck, Nos. two, and three of the South lots north of Croton, and No. two of the "Front Lots" on the Hudson.

To Samuel and Margaret Bayard, North lot No.

three and South lot no. nine. North of Croton, and No. seven of the Front lots on the Hudson.

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To Stephen rleLancej', North lot No. ten, and Soutli h)t No 5, north of Croton, and Front lot No. six, on the Hudson.

To Philip Van Cortlandt, north lot No. six and South lot No. one, north of Croton, and Front lot No. one on the Hudson.

To Stephen Van Cortlandt, South lots Nos. six and seven. North of Croton, and Front lot No. 4 on the Hudson.