History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . ge. Then they foundit convenient to sell andexchange the house-lotsand their various scatteredinterests so as to consoli-date their property nearthe places chosen for resi-dences. The books of thetown about the last of thecentury are full of therecords of these deeds, con-veying tracts varying fromthree acres, or the houselot, to twenty or more inthe field being the tractor lolments which fellto each proprietor in theoriginal division. Theboundaries were us
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . ge. Then they foundit convenient to sell andexchange the house-lotsand their various scatteredinterests so as to consoli-date their property nearthe places chosen for resi-dences. The books of thetown about the last of thecentury are full of therecords of these deeds, con-veying tracts varying fromthree acres, or the houselot, to twenty or more inthe field being the tractor lolments which fellto each proprietor in theoriginal division. Theboundaries were usuallythe lines of the the street,or the cartway, onone side where it wasso bounded. None ofthese can now be iden-tified, except in rareinstances where a stream became a is not likely that any land has remainedin the possession of the same family from thesettlement until now. The families, however, arestill here in unbroken descent, of many of the originalsettlers of 1680 and 1681. From that day to thisthe names of Ambler, Hates, Barrett, Canlield, Clark,Greeft, Holmes, Jones, Seeley, Slawson, Stevens,.
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