"spuyt." Of course, Irving's fun decides In the phrase of which you speak as sus nothing. It may, however, have rested on Kested bj soi no. viz.: "point "f the dov- some tradition which lias not come down to us. lis," the word is confounded with another and Yours as ever, very cordially. -till wholly different Teutonic root, which is neither "spijt " nor "spuyt," bul "spit " or David Col "spits." We have this in our Kn-li-h word Yonkers, February 26, 1900. Of

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HISTORY

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lem River; and its southern started from a point on the Harlem below High Bridge. Its eastern boundary was the Bronx. As "acknowledgment and quit rent" for his manorial patent, Archer was to pay yearly " twenty bushels of good peas, upon the first day of March, when it shall be demanded." The history of Fordham Manor is brief. Already mortgaged in part two years before its creation, and again mortgaged for a much larger amount on the very day after the issuance of the royal patent, it never recovered from the burden of indebtedness thus laid upon it. Moreover, at the end of the fifth year of its existence, it became

In Archer's mortgage of hope of redemption. pledged beyond the all his rights in the manor were transferred to 1676 to Steenwyck, the latter, conditioned only upon the proviso that if before the 24th of November, 1683, he should repay the amount borrowed, at six per cent, yearly interest, he should re-enter as proprietor. The debt Avas not discharged, and Steenwyck took the whole estate as his property. By the will of Cornelius Steenwyck and his wife, Margareta, t drawn November 20, 1684, they devised the manor without any reservations to "the Nether Dutch Beformod Congregation within the City of New York." By that congregation it was preserved intact (its lands being leased to various persons) until 1755, when an act was passed permitting the minister, elders, and deacons of the church to sell COKNELIUS STEENWYCK. the lands. and lord of the manor, is referred to patentee John Archer, the in the will of the Steenwycks as "the late John Archer," andthetheredate fore must have died some time before November 20, 1684, Bolton) from quote (we which that document bears.