It is easy to see, from the choice of the sons in this division and the extra value that must have been put upon the lots which fell to Andrew Johnston, to ecjualize, that, the lots on and nearest the Hudson were then deemed the most valuable and desirable.

When Verplanck's Map was made the ten lots South of the Croton, shown in it were not included in the " thirty lots " divided in the first two divisions of 1782 and 1738. Consequently no names of owners appear on them. They were however subsequently divided, later among the heirs by the same method, and they fell to the following persons:

To Philip van Cortlandt, No. one South of Croton

An<lrew Johnston, "

two

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Stephen Bayard- "

three "

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Stephen van Cortlandt,"

four "

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Phili|) Verplanck, "

five "

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Philip Schuyler'

six "

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William Skinner,

seven "

Henry Beekman, "

eight

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Stephen de Lancey, "

nine "

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John Miln, "

ten

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After the first two divisions there was a little changing among the heirs of their lots, either by ex-

' This is ttie correct name. It lias been spelled Jleliii, anil Milin, in eome |iaper» »Dd nia|iH. He was a physieiun of Aliiany, N. V., and married Maria, or Mary, van t'., the widow of Kilian van Renselaer, the Patroon of liis day, and first Lord of Uensselaersburgli as a Mitwtr.

' F'lrliiniuelf and the other children of his mother Margaret Bayard.