History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Hence his two-thirds il was liable to confiscation. ' Balthazar Bayard was > therefore appointed to take charge of the two-thirds I of the estate which belonged to the government and r, John Lawrence, Stephanus Van Cortlandt and !■ Walter Webley, the nephew, were appointed adir ministrators of Richard's one-third for the benefit of le the infant Lewis. ^ The uncle Lewis, however, with i all the shrewdness of a Quaker and the tact of an old s. soldier, for a time kept in hiding, * but after arranging h. in some way with the government, was finally made 10 administrator of his brother's estate and afterwards a- guardian of the person and estate of his infant 3, nephew. ' He must have finally made a good iraor pression upon Governor Colve, for he was granted the [5, entire estate, buildings and materials thereon, on a ii- valuation to be made by impartial appraisers for the et- benefitoftheminorchild;*butColve,likeatruesoldier, who respected the rights of the commissariat first ii- and the vanquished afterwards, " appropriated" (due rij, regard being had of course to the infant's interests) all ([• the fat cnttle, such as oxen, cows and hogs. Lewis, the III: elder, thus became possessed of Bronxland. Dl, It seems that, this matter being settled, he returned

ill.' to B;irbadoes for the purpose of closing up his busifj( ness on that island, but left his nephew, Webley, in

" 1 N. Y. Col. Docs., vol. ii. 599. 2 Mem, filT.

3 Idem, 651. * Idem, fi84.