Elizabeth, according to Bolton, became " the second wife of Adam Mott, of Ham stead," and their son, William, was the ancestor of Dr. Valentine Mott, of New York City. Mary Richbell married Captain James Mott, of Mamaroneck, who, in an entry in the town records, alludes to " a certain piece of land laying near the salt meadow," ,f in my home lot or field adjoining to my house," as being the burial place of John Richbell.

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PORTION SETTLEMENT

PROGRESS ON THE MAIN" RIDING NORTH BEGINNINGS OF THE MANORIAL ESTATES

N the 6th of September, 1664, the City of New Amsterdam surrendered to an English fleet which had across the Atlantic to take been secretly dispatched J possession of the Dutch dominions in America; and soon afterward the fortified places of the Dutch on the Delaware and the upper Hudson gave in their allegiance to the new rulers of the land. For many years the whole course of events in New Netherland had been steadily tending to this eventuality. As Stuybetween agreement of articles early as 1050, when the Hartford vesant and the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England were signed, the Dutch pretensions to territorial ownership on the banks of the Connecticut were abandoned, and the English rights as far west as Greenwich on the Sound and to within ten miles of the Hudson River in the interior were recognized. At the same time, sovereignty on Long Island was formally divided with the English, it being provided in the articles that "upon Long Island a line run from the westernmost part of Oyster Day, so, and in a straight and direct line, to the sea, shall be the bounds betwixt the English and Dutch there, the easterly part to belong to the English and the westernmost part to the Dutch." Subsequent developments were uniformly in the direction of the acquisition by the English of all unsettled intermediate territory.