On September IS, 1GG9, he executed to Steenwyck a mortgage for 2,200 guilders; on November 14. 1671, another tor 7,000 guilders; and on November 24, 1676, a third for 24,000 guilders, the lasl mentioned being payable in seven years. Meanwhile, however, despite his financial complications, Archer obtained from Governor Lovelace a royal patent consolidating his landed possessions inn, one complete property, which was appointed to be "an entire and enfranchised township, manor, and place of itself." It included the hamlel of Fordham, and was styled Fordham Manor, being tin* second in poiiil of time among the six manors of Westchester < 'mini \ . N.-xt lo the Manor of Morrisania, which embraced nil (he mainland directly south of it. it was the smallest. present Kingsbridge, where h> northern line began not far ft the Spuyten

Duyvil ('reek

bends due smith, merging into the Har-

[i le or point on which we impopular i Sp tt'o use this instrument in our cooking i iP.ook pr 'sses. VII.. Chapter vii.t, with whieh we are both Tl nly matter to be decided with our familiar ll I k ai ham], is how it was originally spelled. Was his spelling n duyvil" li is iioi Duyvil, or Spuyten Duyvil? If it " spuyt." Inn •• spijt." I .1" iioi know how were the latter, it meant "Spouting Devil." Irving was, Im il could mean nothing else. Ii might have il for "in spl ,-il " his spell sted by an energetic or boiling iiiK i" spijt "I spring in tin vicinity. This would turn en"Spijt" and '•spuyt." in the I) irely on a question of fact. Was t here such a wholl.i : loe 1 spring? See a footnote of Dr. Thomas sorrow, grief, disph isnre, vexation, H. Edsall, ou page 748 of Vol.