In full of Quitrents for all the Lands Lying within the Man nor of Cortlandt, to the 25 of March

'Pait 10, of this essay, ante pp. 95, 96.

Last Pursuant to the within Pattent as wittness my hand

T. Byerley GoW.

3'' Endorsement.

Received of Phillip Cortland Esq' for account of M'^ Geertruydt Van Cortland two pounds proc'. money in full for one years quitt rent to the 25 of March last for the lands mentioned in the within Instrument. Wittness my hand this 29 day of June 1721

T. Byerley Coll'.

4"' Endorsement.

Received of the heirs of Coll. Stephanus Van Cortlandt, by the hands of Samuell Bayard Esq' Thirtytwo pounds proclu money which together with thirty- ( eight pounds like money Received by M' Byerley is \ in full for His Majestys quitrent from June 1697 to" j the 17 of last witness my hand Nov' 7* 1732 , Arch'' Kennedy Rec' Gen'.

Thomas Byerly the Receiver General and Collector \

whose bold signature appears to these receipts, arrived i

in New York on the 29th of July 1703, and was a | prominent official in New York and New Jersey, of

both which Provinces he was of the Governor's Coun- j

cil. He died in 1725, and was succeeded as Receiver- '

General in New York by Archibald Kennedy, who i

signs the last of the above receipts, in 1726. j

Subsequent to the divisions of 1732-33 among the ' heirs, the (]uit rents were paid j>roportionably by the different owners. During the Revolutionary war and after it nothing seems to have been ])aid, till the state