Tibbetts, Hadden, and Betts, as settlers outside the limits of Fordham, had various disputes with the authorities of that place, and especially with Archer, the lord of the manor. Being summoned to assist in the building of the " causeway " from the ferry terminal to the firm land, they objected, representing to the governor that this improvement would be of less value to them than a bridge across the Bronx on the road to Eastchester, to whose construction they promised to devote themselves if excused from contributing to the other work. The governor sagaciously decided that both enterprises should be carried through, and directed that

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Tibbetts, Betts, and Hadden should first join the Fordham people in making the causeway, after which an equivalent amount of help should be given by the townsmen toward the building of the Bronx bridge. The latter structure was completed in due time, being provided with a gate on the Eastchester side to prevent the " Hoggs" the from coming over. All the lands north of Archer's line, with sole exception of the Mile Square, were eventually absorbed in the great Philipsc purchase; and accordingly by June 12, 1693, the date on which the royal charter for the Manor of Philipseburgh was issued, the independent holdings of Hadden, Metis, and Tibbetts had been completely extinguished. .Such of their former proprietors, or their descendants, who continued to live on the lands, remained not as owners but as tenants of the Philipses. Even the so-called island of Papirinemen1 (now Kingsbridge), where the ferry from Manhattan The southisland terminated, became a part of the manorial lands. ern section of the old Van der Donck patroonship, embracing the parcels originally bought from Doughty by Betts, Tibbetts, and Hadembraced residue, Yonkers, the Lower was called' Upper as the knownwhich being whole, the of the three-fourths than more den, Yonkers.