Given under lay hand, and sealed with the seal of the province of Fort James, in New York, on the island of 3Ianhattan, this thirteenth day of November, in the twenty-third year of the reign of our sovereign loi-d, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and Anno Domini, 1G71.

FR.\jSrCIS LOVELACE. "Michael Basttensen", "Valextyx Claessen." "Done at Fort WiUiam Hendricke, on the ISth Oct., 1673."

The following year, John Archer, Esq., laid claim to a neck of land called Humock Island, commonly named Papiriniinan^ which he asserted he had by patent.

At a council held in the \"illage of New Haerlem, this 4th of October,

Present: -- The Governor-General and Councillor, Cornelius Steenwyck.

The inliabitants of Fordham appear complaining in substance of the ill-government of their landlord, John Archer, requesting thit they may be granted the nomination of their own Magistrates, as is allowed to all the other inhabitants of this government. Whereupon, the aforesaid John Archer being summoned to appear, the complaint is communicated to him, who voluntarily declares that he desists from the government, authority and patroonship of said town, reserving alone the property and ownership oi the lands and houses there ; according, therefore, to the said inhabitants the nomination of their own Magistrates, which is confirmed to them by the Governor and Council, whereupon the following minute is granted them : --

a Ani;iny ];lc. vol. xxiil. 2G-3-2. 6 S;i} Yonker.i.

5oS HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.