That the petitioner be allowed the requested Bouwery, buildings and materials thereon, for the benefit of the Elinor Orphan Child on a valuation made by unpartial arbitrators ; in like mamier the petitioner shall be at liberty to appropriate withiiut aTiy order, all the chattels which he can attach that have been removed from the Bouwery, on condition thtit they may be brought to tlie Bouwery and inventory delivered in ; and whereas, since the surrender of the place, divers articles have been removed hence by "Walter "Wcljly, it is herewith ordered that Kiiid goods be returned to the plantation for the benefit of the child, when the petitioner shall be gianted letters of guardianship ; the government will a;)- propriate on account, the fat cattle-- such as oxen, cows and hogs -- on condition of being responsible for the payment of the orphan's share.

Dated Fort AVillem Ilendtick, this 17th October, 1673.^

a D'-j^i. Ci.l. Hisr. of X. y., nolKiml Doc. I'V,', ir.Ts, vol. ii, p. 631-2. b Doc. CoL iltiji. >'. Y., lioUanU Doc. 163T, IGTS, vol. ii, p. C:;7.

THE TOW'y OF V,EST FARMS. 46 1

Fourteen days afterwards we find the following order issued : --

'• ^Vhcreas it lias becD found that the two-tbird parts of the estate left by the ate Uicbanl Morris belong in real propriety to bis brother, Colonel Lewis Morris, M ri-si'lout of the Island of Barbadoes iu the Caribbecs, whose estate, l,y the Proi:a::!alion dated the 20th of September last, is contiscated for the behoof of the jjov^-nmient; and it being therefore necessary tliatin addition to the guardians and tutors of the aforenamed Eicliard Morris's surviving orphan child, someone be ninnussioiied on the part of the government to regulate said estate. Therefore have I resolved to commissi<jn and qualify Balthazar Bayard to that end, as he Is licreby commissioned and qualified to assume the said estate fcr tlio two-third parts tliereof which belong tc the government, with said guai'diar.s by name, .Mlss'- John Lawrence, Stcphfmus van Cortlandt and Walter Wcbly, for the onethird part thereof inlierited by them ; to adjust and settle the debts and credits; tot-ell the remaining pers<jnal property, and thereof to deliver into the Secretary's ofilcc perthient account and balance when order shall be issued what further disp<isition shall be made therein.