2 In the Autumn of 17U9, it was stated in the Assembly that the Manors of Philipseborough and Cortlandt, exclusive of all other portions of the County, contained "one-third of the people in the County;" but the number of Freeholders was somewhat increased, during the later Colonial period, as it was the practice of the greater number of the Proprietors to sell the fee-simple, whenever it was applied for. -- Edward F. de Lancey to Henry B. Dawson.

3 An instance of the permanence of occupation, by tenants on the Manors, 1b seen in the case of the Anjevines, thus referred to by Mr. Bolton: "Under the Heathcotes and De Lanceys, the Anjevines held the large farm," [in Scarsdale,] "bearing their name, now owned by Alexander M. Bruen, M.D., for four Generations." -- History of Westchester County, Becond edition, ii., 231,

Although the Manors of Livingston and Rensselaerwyck and the Scott and Blenheim and Duanesburg and Clark and Kortright and Hardenburg and Desbrosses and Livingston and Montgomery and Armstrong ' and Banyar and Hunter and Overing and Lewis and Verplanck and other Patents were not in Westchester-county, the relations of landlord and tenant were the same, unless in the rentals, in all ; and they were the same as those which generally prevailed on the Manors and other large estates, in Wehtchester-county. The student who shall desire to learn more on that subject of American feudalism, as it existed before and since the American Bevolution, may find very much which will be useful to him, in the Report on the Difficulties existing between the Praprie