* They probably stood in the neighborhood of the present Van Cortlandt mansion.

5 To wit : " 1 penny for each head of neat cattell ; 2 pens for each "niann and horse, and 12 pens for each score of Uoggs and sheep that " shall pass the said brige ; and U pens for every boat, vessell or canoo " that shall pass the said brige, and cause the same to be drawne up."

0 The removal to its present site was made pursuant to an act of Assembly passed in 1713 at the petition of Flypsen's grandson, Frederick PhiUipse, then a minor.

" Madame Knight, crossing December, 1704, en route to Boston, was charged three pence "for passing over with a horse."

s So called after George Tippett (2d), who conveyed it in 1C91, to his brother-in-law, Joseph Hadley. He sold to Matthias Buckout, whoconveyed to Mr. Flypsen.

KING'S

added to it several hundred acres while he lived, foriniug the bulk of the present Van Cortlandt estate. He made a mill-pond by damming up the Tip])ett's Brook, and setup a grist and saw-mill. In 1704 there were about twenty families in the Yonkers. The Belts and Tippett families partitioned their tract in 1717, and gradually sold it off to new settlers. Agriculture was the chief industry, and the farms were noted for choice fruits and fine breeds of cattle. Produce was carried to market in periaugers. Stone quarrying was engaged in before the middle of the century.