History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
I This IB not in Verplanck'B survey, but is added as an estimate from the best information the writer could ol)tain. 2 From tlie MS. in tlie Van Wyck papers.
8 Tlio seiianite values of each of these three lots are oniiltiil in the original, though the total is given ; evidently an accidental error.
THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE MANORS.
N'imcs
Acre's.
Vttluu ill poui
238.
300.
31) IH)
450.
£988.
(iC'rtiii(U~ lU'okmnn
...27(54
210.
231)4
106.
£912.
WilliniH Skinner
...188(5
120.
675.
25(55
156.
£951.
Aiuircw Jdlmslon
...4095
339.
240.
3(595
310.
£023
£889.
... 808
218.
28(50
575.
225.
£1018.
Recapitulation.
Ainoiiiils ill N.
Names.
Acres.
Cnricncy.
...(5831
£ 973.
Margaret l>ayard
...7398
...£ 948.
...7377
£ 999.
Philip Van {'orllaiult
...(;()48
£ 975.
Stephen Van C'ortianilt...
..6894
£ 972.
...7714
£ 988.
...80()2
£ 912.
William Skinner
.. .81(53
£ 951.
...9023
£ 889.
...73(54
£1018.
75474'
£9625.
The above values are in
New York
eurreney
in which the i)()und was equal to two dollars and a half 01 United States Currency. Hence the entire value in money of the 75,000 acres and upwards, in 1733, when the division among the heirs took place, was only $25.0(52, or about $2,500 per share ; and as the shares averaged 7000 acres each, it is seen at once how extremely low was the value of land j)er acre in New York and in Westchester County at that time.
This valuation also is evidence of the good sense and sound judgment of Mrs. Steplianus van Cortlandt, the sole executrix of her husband's will, and of Wil-