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.

' For hiniM'lf and the other rliildren of his mother Cornelia Schuyler.

* From a MSS. statement in the Van Wyck papers.

change, or by purchase. Exactly what their arrangements were in all cases it is now difficult to say. One diange, which will illustrate this matter, was made between Mr. de Ijancey and Mr. Schuyler, and Mr. Miln, by which the latter two transferred to the former, North lot No. Nine North of Croton adjoining North lot No. ten and about two thirds of North lot No. 8 adjoining No. 9, to the West which fell to ]\Ir. dc Lancey. These two and two-third lots, together, comprise about nine-tenths of the present township of Nortii Salem and extended from the old Colony line to the main Croton River, embracing the beautiful valley of Titicus, the easternmost branch of the Croton. Mr. de Lancey died in 1741, and under his will and the division of his Estate among his children, two of these lots became the property of his eldest son James, then the Chief Justice of the Province. In 1744 the latter conveyed them, as a gift, to his second son Stephen. Stephen a few years later began their settlement, and brought in many fanners, and some mechanics. The whole tract was laid out into farms rectangular in shape of two hundred acres each, as a rule.