" I do hereby give, devise and bequeath unto my son Peter, and to bis heirs, all my mills, mill-house, mill-boat, farm and land, and all and every the appurtenances thereunto belonging, .'situate and being in the county of Westchester, upon Eronck.s's river, lately known as the milU of William IlicJiarchon, to have and to hold unto my son Peter, and to his heirs and assignees forever."":

James de Lancey, the eldest son of the above testator, was Chief Justice and Lieutenant-Governor of the province of New York. He mara Beo-son's >Iein. 2". Hist, of N. NetlierlanUs, O'Callahan, vol. 1250. Town Rec Lib 57. Rec of Trustees, pp. So, SD.

b S'.-e vol. i, 20S.

c Siirrotrato'.^ Offlee, >'. T. lib. .xiv, 91. It appears from the foilowinar, that ther^ wa"? an ancl'Mil buryirig-crouml in tho vicinity of ])e Laiic-y'.^ mills, near the Dniii.v, approachoJ t>y a nairow lano K;acliiit; from th'- hiirhway to Westchester roail :-- " Julin Feiri-i, of the borough town of \Vestc!i(-ti'r, in his \A-.t will, d itotl 9th of .ttay, ITls, directs: 'as als > li'e land lvir;tr betwixt the hit.'hi\-ay that Ifa'ls to Thouiai liedden's mills and the wav that Icails Ironl BronrH s to Heury Hank's, with a lifty poiiiid privilfpe of cnmimmau'e, anil ajso al! that mr laud lit Bronck's, coiitamintr twenty-four acres, be it more or less. Hut, be it provided always, thnt there sh ill be a rm-] siiu.ire, free for all friends and friendlv people'to biirv their dead in the plac- where they formerly buried, without any let, hiu'arauce or moleitalioa what.sneyer."-- Surrogate's oillce, N. Y., foUo viil, p. oai.