In March and September, 1667, he sold to John Archer, of Westchester, - fourscore acres of land and thirty Kingsbridge, " lying acres of meadow," in the vicinity of the present and beino' betwixt Brothers River and the watering place at the end of the Island of Manhatans." This was the beginning of a new . manorial estate-- the second of our country in point of antiquity Tippett, George and Betts Douohtv also sold, Jnlv 6, 1668, to William thouhis Sm-in-law (for whom Tibbet's Brook is named), about two southits with Bronx, the to Hudson the from reaching acres sand ern boundary starting just below Kingsbridge and above Archers along lands and its northern passing through Van Cortlandt Lake same the About field." planting Donck's the north side of - Van der conDoughty £5, and horse a of value the for 1668), 7, (June time diacres twenty and hundred three veyed to Joseph lladden some parts rectly north of Van der Donck's planting field, lying in unequal mile on both sides of Tibbet's Brook. In 1676 he sold a tract one Bronx the on square (still called -'the Mile Square"), bordering t. And River to Francis French, Ebenezer Jones, and John Westcot of the d remaine that all finally on the 20th of November, 1671', Yonkers Land was disposed of in equal thirds to Thomas Delaval, Thonms Lewis, and Frederick Philipse. Of these various sales, the first, to Archer, and the last, to Philipse and others, arc of special historic interest, each of the two being followed by consecutive developments which will demand particular attention. . . John Archer, the earliest sub-purchaser in the original Van der oi Donck tract, was, as already stated, an inhabitant of the Town English of was he whether nty uncertai some is There Westchester. or Dutch origin.