"To'his son-in-law, Joseph Hadley, a pasture of three acres already laid out, &c.,at or about the first spring, aud all the meadow that is already divided, that is ou this side the river above ya planting neck." "To his three daughters, two hundred acres of laud each ; " " and to his brother's son, in England, Joseph Richardson, one hundred acres, if he come within the space of one whole year to receive it ; and if he come not within the time prefixed, it shall remain in Martha my wife's hands." "In conclu.sion, he constitutes aud appoints his wellbeloved friends, William Richardson and Richard Ponton, both of Wcstciiester, and Jonathan Hay ward, of Newtown, Long L^'land, overseers of his last will and testament, and that it is his whole will and testament after his decease, he witnesses it vmder his own hand the IHth day of November, 1679-1680."

Signed, Johx Ricuakusox.""

Upon the 12th of January, 1686, Governor Thomas Dongai; granted a/a/t'///to Thomas Hunt, Sen., for all his land bounded on the east by

a Surrogate's office, N. Y., WUlf! aud .VJmr., 1GC3 ta lt>S3. Vol. i., p. +31.

43S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

the river Aquehung. or Bronx, extending to the midst of the said river, on the nonh by certain marked trees and a piece of hammock, and on the west by a certain brook called Sackrahung, for the value of one bushel of good winter wheat."'*

The following receipt appears to have been given for quit-rent due on the above patent : --