The latter vras t!ie father of Abraham, who was born on loth of Oct, 1 7 1 6 ; married Phcebe, daughter of Daniel Strong, and died at York town, i7L!i of April 177S. His eldest son was Abraham Purdy, Esq., for many years a lieutenant of Militia for the manor of Cortlandt, whose son, the late Alvan Purdy, Esq., erected the family homestead at Crompond, in 1775, cind held a Lieutenancy in Ca-ptain Haddy's company of militia, belonging to the regiment of Col. Samuel Drake. The sons of Alvan Purdy, were th.e late Abraham, of Goshen Co., N. Y. ; James of Yorktown ; and Alvan, late pro])rietor of the homestead.

. The Lees, too, were among the early tenantry of the manor, and are supposed to have been a younger branch of the Lees of Lee -- Magna,

It I'-unfa Iliii. of Uye, pp. S-l-t, 433.

664 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF \VF,STCHESTER.

Kent, England, v/ho settled in Nottingham at an early period William Lee, (whose sister Elizabeth, bequeathed her estate in England to the heirs general), emigrated from Nottingham to America in 1675, died in 1724, married Mary Marvin, and left three sons and seven daughters. His sons were Thomas, of Long Island, who died without issue; Joseph, of Long Island, and Richard, who entered the French MiUtary ser\-ice in Canada, and died without issue. Joseph Lee, second son of William, on the 4th of December, 1753, purchased of Andrew Johnston, of Perth Amboy, N. J., "All that lott of land in the manor of Cortlandt, known by the name of Lot No. 18, and part of lot No. 17, in north lot No. 2. He also purchased the farm on which his great-grand-son, Enos Lee, now lives, in 1786 ; he also ounied Crumpond Corner. His sons were Joseph of Yorktown, who died aged 77, leaving WiUiam, who died aged 50; Joseph, who died aged 50; Hon.