History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
The Survey and Map, a reduced copy of the latter of which is annexed, divided all the unsold lands then, in 1774, remaining in the possession of Colonel Heathcote's heirs, into three divisions, the North, the Middle, and the South Divisions, designated by the number of the respective lots in each. The balloting was thus effected, a boy blindfolded, one John Wallisby name, was appointed to draw the numbers of the lots, and the names of the parties. to whom they fell. He drew the lots in the different divisions seriatim, beginning at the north division, taking out first a ticket with the number of the lot, and then one with the name of an owner. The latter tickets bore either the name of "Anne de Lancey," or the words "The Heirs of Lewis Johnston." After the whole was completed the proceedings were duly certified to in triplicate, by the Commissioners, and each copy duly approved by the signature of John Harris Cruger, as the Councillor of the Province, present.
The Map gives the perimeter of the whole Manor, antl those of some of its interior parts, besides the unsold portions included in the partition, necessary to a right understanding of the latter. The portions left blank are those parts of the Manor which had ])reviously been sold by the Proprietors. It also shows the "Great Lotts" or the " Long Lotts " being those in the northern part of the township Tract which Colonel Heathcote and the other owners had so laid out in 1706, in the former's lifetime, and also the short lots at their southern end, all of which took up the whole of that tract northward and beyond the home lots, to the township line. The latter are not shown. Colonel Heathcote had in 1708, and in 1716 long after hisManor- Grant, and at other later times, bought several parts and parcels of the original home lots as Richbell had laid them out, which in the course of time had been divided up by their owners.