J j.'.ii Archer, liis heirs iSc assignes forever, free, quit and cleare from all & any t >nu of biiriraine & sale, or any other incumbraaees by us or by an}- from or untliT US tfc to ye utmost of o"' powers shall keep aad save him the s"^ John Archer, his heirs 6c assigaes, harmlesse in his or their qulett possession & enjoyment of ve premises against any other Indian pr'tenders whatsoever. In ^Yituess whereof we have hereunto put o" hand & scales, ye day & yeare first -withiu wrytten

This bargain & sale was made by ye approbation & iycense of his Hon" ye governors between ye partycs mentoned, w ith tlr.s Proviso tliat his Royall Highness, his Rights & Priviledges as Lord Proprietor of iheese his territoryes he

hereby not any infrigned, MATTHIAS NICOLLS, Setf"-

Entered by Johx Aecher, March 4th, 1669. "J

By these and other purchases John Archer, Esq., eventually became seized in fee of 1,253 acres. Upon the 13th of November, 167 1, Francis Lovelace, Esq., the Governor, issued the following letters patent erecting the whole into an infranchised township or manor of itself to be held by the feudal tenor of paying therefore yearly to the Duke of York and his successors upon the first day of March, (St. Da-vid's Day,) when demanded twenty bushels of good peas.^

THE ROYAL PATENT OF rORDHA:iL

Francis Lovelace, Esq., one of the gentlemen of his Majestie's Ilon'ble Privy Chamber, and Governor-General under his Royal Highness, James Dulve of York and Albany, and all his territories ui America, to all to whom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting: Whereas, there is a certain parcel or tract of land within this government, upon the main continent, situate, lying and being to the Eastward of llirlem River, near unto ye passage commonly called Spitinr/ Devil, upon "which ye A'f er Dorp or village is erected, knoini- hy the nnnieof Fordham --ye utmost limits of the whole tract or parcel of land, bcgimiing at the high wood land, that lyes do North- west over against the first point of the main land to the East <^f the Island Pepiriniman -- there where the hill Moskutu is -- and soe goes aicmgs^ the said kill, the said land striking from the high wood land before mentio:;ed East South-east, till it comes to Bronk's, his kill; soe Westward up along^t ye main land to the place where Harlem Kill and Hudson River meet, and then forth aloagst Harlem KOI to the first spring or fountaiu, keeping to the