De recorded 25th of November, 1G78.

On the 20th of November, 16S4, Cornelius Steenwyck, of New York, merchant, and Margaretta his wife, made their last will and testament in the Dutch laiiguage. After the usual preamble they express themselves to tlie following effect, viz : --

5IO HISTORY OF THE COUXTY OF WESTCHESTER.

"We, the said testators, do declare that our earnest will and last desire is, tLii the general inheritance of us, the said testators, and between our heirs, sliall l*-- regulated after the form, manner, custom and practice of the Nether Dutch 2sa lion, and according to the articles made upon the surrendering of this pliice. And I, the said testator, vdth the free consent of my wife, by form of a legacy, have given, grant and legacied as I, the said testator, by form and legacy, do give and grant by these presents, for and to the proper use and behoof of the Nether Dutch Reformed congregation within the city of New York, for the sujv port and maintainance of their ministers, ordained according to tlie church ordi.rs of the Netherlands, now at present here in bei7ig ot hereof ter to be called, ordai/ud, or to come, all the testators right, property, title, and hereditaments in and to the manor of Fordham, lying in the county of Westchester, together with all the lands, meadows, fields, woods, creeks, rivulets, and other waters, as also all the eaid testators jurisdiction, right, title, action and property, in and to the said Manor of Fordham, with all the patents, deeds, schedules, hypothets, mortgages, and other instruments of writing, to the said manor of Fordham, belonging or in any wise appertaining, in as full and ample as the said manor of Fordham now already in property is belonging, or hereafter more auiply shall be confirmed unto the said testator by deed conveyance, transport, hypothet, mortgage, juJi^- ment or otherwise, from or by any manner of way or means, of John Archer, deceased, last owner and proprietor of the said Manor of Fordham.