Upon the loth of January, 1694, Dominie Ilenricus Selyns and Margaretta, his wife, formerly Margaretta Steenuyck, by their certain deed poU, under their hands and seals, did grant and convey to Colonel Nicholas Bayard, Captain Isaac Vermilyea, Jacob Uolen Rockloyzun, and John Harpendinck, then elders and overseers of the Nether Dutch Church within the city of New York, &:c., and their lawful successors and heirs and posterity the said manor of Fordham Ipng in the County of Westchester above mentioned : --

"With all the lands aad meadows, fields, woods, rivulets, creeks and other rivers, together with all the rights, title, property, jurisdiction, and interest which cither the afnresaid Cornelius Steeuwj'ck or in quality as before in any other manner of way before that time had in the said manor of Fordham, and its appurtcn;mees, whether it be by right from the said John Archer, or from his son, John Archer, Jr., to be held and forever enjoyed, used, and possessed, and held In full and absolute property, as an hereditary estate, by the said elders and overseers of the aforesaid congregation who were then in being, with all the profits^ incomes, b^m fits, and revenues, for the tettir support and maimainance of the said inin/'xtfT, called pursuant to order of the Church of 2s"etherlauds then present or that should thereafter be chilled aiid come.

"Provided, and with the aforesaid condition and stipulant, that the IVIanor with uU its a.'purtenances, shoidd, in no vise be alienated nor estranged, contrary to the tenor <i the aforerarutioncd will and bequest, but slnnild remain to the use and be!-.().)f aforesaid, and not othericise, releasing therefor, the said deed to property, tit e and right that this said grantors as well for themselves or in qualitj' as aliove heretofore hud to the said ilauor and its appurtenances, could