While he lived in the Yonkers the swine of the New Harlem people used to run at large at the upper end of Manhattan Island, and sometimes straying across the ivading- 2)lace at low tide, failed to return. Tippett would be charged with their detention and the whole community hauled into court as witnesses. Tippett's " ear-mark " for his own swine was said to be " the cutting of their ears so close that any other marks might be cut oft" by it." Mr. Tippett died intestate in 1675, survived by his wife, Mehitable (afterward married to Lewis Vitrev and Samuel Hitchcock), a son George, perhaps a son Henry, and a daughter Mehitable (who was married fii-st to Joseph Hadley and second to John Couckliu). Descendants of his name held portions of the estate until the Revolutionary War.

"^Tippett's Hill " was the name of Spuyten Duyvil Neck during the same period,' and the principal stream of the Yonkers has always been called after him, although corrupted into "Tibbits" in recent times.

I Known after the Revolution and until recently as "Berrien's Neck," after an owner who married Dorcas Tippett, a great-great-grandilanghter of the first George.

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John Hadden made the next purchase from Doughty. His deed of June 7, 1668, antedates that of Betts and Tippett, but bounds on land already sold to them. It conveys three parcels aggregating three hundred and twenty acres, lying directlj' north of Van der Donck's planting- field and extending across from the Albany post road to the road to Mile Square. The Van Cortlandt estate now includes the whole of it. For two hundred acres Hadden gave a horse and for the remainder five pounds ! In December, 1668, Betts sold to Hadden twenty-four acres adjoining his "house iit the old field."