After the Revolutionary War I obtained jxjssession tliereof and put the Dutch lieformed Congregation in possession. As they cannot obtain a comjilete title from the Heirs, I want it sold for the benefit of the said cliurch, or as much thereof as will pay the Quit Rent now due from the said Manor of Cortlandt.

Ph. V. Cortlandt.'^

Parson's Point is bounded on the West and South by Hudson's River, and on the East and North by Divided lands of said Manor of Cortlandt."

At the time of the first divisions of the Manor there were settlers upon all the lots more or less. The lots were divided up into farms averaging 250 acres in some parts of the Manor and 200 acres in others.

Each farm numbered, and leased as " Farm No. ,

in Great Lot No. ," and when described the tenants name was generally added, thus " and in possession of so and so." By 1750, the whole ]\Ianor had become populated, as ap])ears by the list of farms and tenants names in the accounts still extant rendered to many of the heirs and their representatives. A very few farms here and there had been sold in fee. About 1770, as the tenants had prospered and their families increased, they began to acipiire the " soil right " as they termed it by jjurchase from the landlords. The Revolution checked this movement entirely for the time being, nor was it till 1787 or 8 that it began again. But from that time it progressed continually, so that by 1847, there were only about 2500 or 3000 acres of leased land," exclusive of the estate belonging to Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt, left throughout the Manor. Of this about 1200 acres divided into five farms are, at this moment, still held, in the Great Lot, No. 6, south of Croton, by descendants of the heir to whom that lot fell at the original division.