Dirck Van Clyff and Walter Webly with Balthazar Bayard, the already appointed commissioner, (in place of

a IV)c. Col i;i.<t. X. Y. Ilol'.iinii Doc. lor.T-lcrs, vo:. ii. p. f.50. 6 DoC. Col. ni-=t. N. Y. nu'.lana Doc. li;57-16:i, vol. ii. p. G(>t

462 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

John LawTence and Stephanus Van Cortlandt, excused,) to aid in re;;'.:, lating in the speediest manner the estate of the above mentioneii Richard Morris, and to report the result to the Governor.''

In 1676, Lews Morris, second proprietor of ]NIorrisania, and brotht:: of Richard, obtained the follomng letters patent :

GOVERNOR .^TDROS'S PATENT FOR BROXCK'S L-\JS'D.

Edmund ^indros, Esq., seigneur of Sausmarez, liieut. Gov'nr Gcn'l, under his royal highness, James, Duke of York, and of all liis territories in ^\jnerica, to &'.\ to whom these presents shall come, with greeting : Whereas, Col. Lewis .Morris of the Island of Barbadoes, hath loDg enjoyed, aud by patent stands posscst of .1 certain plantation and tract of land, lying and being upon the maino, over ag;iih.--t the town of Haerlem, commonl}' called Broiick's land, the same containing about five hundred acres, or two hundred and fifty morgen of land, besides the meadow thereunto annexed or adjoining, cotted and bounded as in tlie original Dutch ground brief and patent of confirmation is set forth ; aud the said Col. Morris having made good improvement upon the said land, and there lying lands adjacent to him not incliTded in any patent or grants, which land the said Co!. Morris doth desire for further improvement, this said land and addition being bounded from his own house over against Haerlem, running up Ilaerlem river to Daniel Turner's land, and so along his said land northward to John Archer's line, and from thence stretching east to the land of John Richardson and Thomas Hunt, and thence along the Sound about southwest, through Bronck's kill, to the saiii Col. 3rorri3 his house, the additional land containing (according to the survey thereof) the quantity of fourteen hundred, and the whole, one thousand nine hundred and twenty acres.