The family of Archer is of English origin -- Fulbert L' Archer, (a surname signifying for distinction's sake the archer, or bowman,) the first of whom any thing is known, came into England with William the Conqueror.^ The .Vrchers for many centuries held large possessions in the County of Warwicksliire. The representative of the senior branch in 1560 appears to have been Humphrey Archer of War\vickshire,^ who was bom in 1527 and died October 24th, 1562, eldest son and heir of Richard Archer, twelfth in descent from the above mentioned Fulbert. Humo In the ancient I'atalojrnc. or Roll of Battle Abbey, Sussex, T^ngland, occurs the oarac of ''.^:c^l'?re." Arms of Arctior, of Vrabusdale County, of Warwick: Azure, three bruail arrGwa in pale or, Crc-t out of a mural coronet sru-- a(lr:iL,'Oin Utaii ar<r.

h Anlruw- ArchtT, arnUL'-r. of Tanwork, mms Hij-h siu-ntr of Warwlokihire, 6lh of Jan. icos ; ariui as above. -- Fuller's Wuntiu-a of Eny^lauii, vol. ui., p. 225.

5l6 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF ^VESTCHESTER.

phrey, married Elizabeth Townsend. and left among other sons -- Jol-.-^. whose son John was the father of John Archer, first Lord of this manor. The latter probably accompanied the early settlers from Fairfield, Conn., to Westchester, circ 1654-5; for in 1657 his name appears as plainti'f in an action of debt brought against one Roger Wiles of the latter tc^-n. His branch of the family might have removed out of "Warwickshire into Norfolk, from whence they came to New England. Several of this name were early settlers of Massachusetts, viz., Henr}', of Ipswich in 1641 ; an^! Samuel Archer, a carpenter, who requested freedom, lived in Salem, ami died in 1667. Hubbard, in his " Indian Wars," mentions a Layton Archer, and his son of Rhode Island who were killed by the Indian?, 25th of June, 1675." John Archer, first Lord of this Manor, was Sheriff of New York city from 1679 to 1682.