a Co. TvCC. Lib, A. C-2.

590 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

year of oar Lord, 1GS2, among-st other things ditl devise unto John Delcval hh only son, all that his interest in the aforementioned land and premises, his one full, equal and certain third thereof, as by the said codicil in writing, relation being theremito liaJ, may more full)"- and at large appear; and, ^vhereas, the Hon. Col. Thomas Dongau, late Gov. of our said province &c., and as by a certain deed or patent, sealed -^-itli the seal of our said province «S:c., and bcarini^ date the 19th of Feb., in the year of our Lord, 1CS4-5, pursuant to the authority in him then residing, for the consideration therein expressed, did further grant, ratif}' and confirm, unto the said Thomas Deleval, Frederick Philips, Geertje Lewis, relict of the said Thomas Le%yis, due their heirs and assigns, all the aforesaid tract and parcel of land beginning at a small rivulet known and called by the Lidians, Makakassin, from thence into the vroods due east by a great rock stone and a l>^le of marked trees, to Bronx's river, and thence by said river, four miles and something more, to a marked white oak tree upon the middle of a great ledge of rocks, which is the north-east corner of the land of Francis French & Co., in the mile square formerly sold out of the aforesaid patent, then by the said land, west, 3.5 dcg. northerly, 1 mile or SO chains from thence east 35 dcg. southerly to Bronx's river to a marked tree, which is the south-east corner of the mile square, excepted out of the said patent, from thence by Bronx's, his river, 89 chains to a marked tree, which is the north-east corner of "Wm.