These may certify all persons to whom those presents shall come, that Jo!m Archer, of the manor of Fordham, in the County of Westchester, and Paruli Odell of the same place, by virtue of Ins E.xccllency the Governor's license, bearing date 7th day of October, 1GS6, were both joined together in matrimonv tJK'

day of December, in the year of our Lord God, 1GS6, and in the 2nd 5'ear "f

his majesty's reign. I^a RooAtrs, AtteiUit^.

John Palmer, Justice of Quorum.

John Archer, although charged under the manorial patent as mesne lord, with the proper oversight for the maintainance of a minister in tlic towm of Fordham, (the parisliioners hving between the two kills of Hara t'lrnut'a R^vjixUr.

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lem and Bronck's,) yet appears to have attached himself to Westchester; l>ir i'.x 1703 he was elected a vestryman of the precinct of Yonkers, ^rthicli included Fordham, both towns being embraced in the extensive {orish of Westchester,) an office which he held for nearly seven years, aiiddiedin 1783.'^ %

The children of John Archer and Sarah Odell, were: John, Samuel, Riciiard, and others, who have left numerous descendants ; Samuel, the second son, left one son, Benjamin Archer of Fordham, whose son Benjamin was for many years owner in fee of part the manor.

In ]G71, Daniel Turneur, of New Harlem, purchased forty morgen of land from the Indian sachems Shatash, Panazarah and others, which said "tract of ia!;d is lying upon ye maine next to ye land of John Archer, begiuuiiig at ye bay on ye south side of Crabb Island and so running along ye creek parting ye maine and Manhattan's Island 10 Brunx land extending east and west su far as the lanil of the said John i:\j-cher," &c.f> This sale is presumed to have embraced Devoe's point, called by the Aborigines "Nuasin."