COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 37 and divided from the main land by certain trees marked by the Indians, togeth-er with half the said creek, &c. &c., for and in consideration of a certain sum or quantity of Wampum and divers other goods, paid by Cornelius Van Bur-gum.^ It is certain that some time prior to 1748, Sarah Teller held the neck as tenant at sufferance nnder the Van Cortlandt fami-ly. A branch of the Teller family were early connected with the Yan Corllandt's by marriage.

Andrew Teller in 1671 hav-ing married Sophia, daughter of the Right Hon. Oloff Stevensen Yan Cortlandt. The common ancestor of the Tellers was a Dutch clergyman of some distinction in the New Netherlands.

Upon the 30th of July, 1667, occurs an act of the English Gov-ernor and his council, concerning William Teller and his chil-dren, wherein the payment of eighty-five beavers is enforced as his daughter's share besides other portions to his remaining chil-dren; one of these was a son named Andries.b The names of Jacob Teller en zyn buys vrow (and his wife) occur in the church books of Sleepy Hollow.