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Witness our hands,
ROGER LUDLOWE.
1With John Holloway, no after Norwalk mention. Savage states that "we often find proprietors in the early days living elsewhere" than in the place in which they were land-owners.
2 From Norwalk deed-reference, it appears that two Norwalk plots bore the name of Ludlow. One of these was in the neighborhood of the present W. G. Langdon and Marvin Bros. estates, and the other in that of the Eno lands at Saugatuck. (Foot note, page 7, refers to these divisions.) Dr. H. R. Stiles, of Windsor, writes that' Ludlow's family accompanied him to Virginia. Neither of the sons (Thomas and Jonathan) appear afterward in Norwalk, and as there is no record of any disposition of the Ludlow prop- erty in this town, it may be wondered where the title
to the same rests to-day. Possibly this point is covered by the Ludlow " memorandum" of April 13th, 1654. Mr. Ludlow's first wife died in England. Schenck's History of Fairfield mentions that he married, in New England, a sister of Gov. John Endicott. The Lud- lows are, most probably, buried in Britain, although Trumbull thinks to the contrary. Partrick is prob- ably mouldering in the neighborhood of Byram, in Greenwich, and his friend and the Pequot companion at one time of, perhaps, both Ludlow and Partrick, the intrepid Capt. John Underhill, sleeps opposite his Greenwich home, at Cold Spring, across the Sound. The first probably passed away in state; the second was murdered in Underhill's Greenwich house : and the third died in 1672, on his Long Island farm.
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Seven days after this "agreement" transaction, on June 26, 1650, the Court-record makes it appear, as follows :
APPROBATION.
Natha : Ely and Richard Olmsted in the behalfe of themselues and other Inhabitants of Hartford, desired the leaue and approbation of the Courte for planting of Norwaake, to whome an answer was returned as followeth :-
That the Courte could not but, in the generall, approue of the endeauors of men for the further improvement of the wildernes, by the beginning and carrying on of new plant- acons in an orderly way ; and leaving the consideracon of the just grounds of the proceed- ings of the petitioners to the propper place, did manifest theire willingness to promote theire designe by all due incouragement, in case theire way for such an vndertaking were found cleare and good : and prouided the numbers and quality of those that ingage therein ap- peare to bee such as may rationally carry on the worke to the advantage of the publique wellfare and peace ; that they make preparations and provisions for their owhe defence and safety, that the country may not be exposed to vnnecessary trouble and danger in these hazardoue times ; that the devisions of the lands there to such as shall inhabitt, bee made by just rules and with the aprobacon of a Comittee appointed for that end by this Courte, or to bee rectified by the Courte in case of aberrations, and that they attend a due payment of their proportions in all publique charges, with a ready observation of the other wholsome orders of the Country.
The next calendar step in the Norwalk settlement matter was the Indian deed of confirmation to Stephen Goodyear, reading thus :
"A true and perfect copyic of the confirmation of the purchase of the meadows and lands ad- joininge lying upon the other side of Norwalke River."
MEMORANDA.
NORWALK TOWN RECORDS.
VOL. I. PAGE 30.
Wheareas Aashowshack and Chachoamer, Indians, are the survivinge propriators of the Land lyinge on the other side of Norwake River, whith sayed Land was fullie bar- gained for, and sold unto Captaine Patricke of Greenwich, and whereas the sayed Aashow- shake and Chachoamer, doe testifie and affirme, with other Indians, that their was left unpayed by the sayed Captaine Patricke twoe Indian coates, and fowre fathom of wampam, now these are to certifie, that I Annanupp, Alias Parrott, so named and knowen to the English, have by order and Appoyntment of the Aashowshake and Chachoamer, received of Mstr. Stephen Goodier, of new Haven, marchant, the sayed two coates, and fowre fathom of wampam ; and doe by their order and in their names, hereby acquitt and discharge the sayed Mstr. Stephen Goodier, of all dues or demands or any claims to be made by us, or any Indians what soever, unto any farther thinge or things in or about the sayed purchase
ESTHER PERRY. DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH AND MARY (CLUCKSTONE) PERRY. AND WIFE OF JOHN CANNON'L OF NORWALK.
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of Lande made firmely by Captaine Patricke, and now hereby confirmed unto the sayed Mstr. Goodier, and his heirs, and assignes: in witness where of I the sayed Annanupp, Alias Parrott doe hereby sett my hand the first day of July, 1650.
Witnesse JOSHUA ATTWATER.
the marke W of Annanupp.
THOMAS KIMBERLIE.
the marke
of Anthitunn.
Memorandum. Their is a counterpart of the aforesayed written artickles and agree- ment and subscribed, by Nath'n Eli and Rithd Olmested.
The above is a curious bit of Norwalk history. Stephen Goodyear, was one of the "first principal " founders of New Haven, and one of that opulent Colony's staunch sup- porters. The purchase, however, of one-half of Hartford - acknowledged - and - belonging
I Although Mr. Goodyear himself may have had no other than an official " confirmation " connection Norwalk-wise, still the influence of the great New Haven merchant's descendants in this town, has been a power. His daughter Hannah married, Oct. 29th, 1656, Rev. Samuel, son of John Wakeman, treasurer of the New Haven Company. Rev. Samuel and Hannah (Goodyear) Wakeman had a daughter Mary, who married Michael Cluckstone of Fairfield, who had Mary, who married (3d wife) Joseph Perry, of " The Osborn House," Fairfield, who had Esther, who married John Cannon, Sr., of Norwalk. This John Cannon (" Commodore,") was the son (see will of Andrew Cannon, Jr., 1761%) of John and Jerusha (Sands) Cannon of New York. He was a brother of LeGrand Cannon, the Stratford settler, who was the ancestor of Harriet, the mother-superior of the Protestant Episcopal Sisterhood of St. Mary, New York. Mrs. John Cannon, Sr., of Norwalk, was of the fourth generation from Richard Perry, the 1649 Fairfield settler. Her grandmother was Hester, (Mrs. Nathaniel Perry) daughter of Richard Lyon, whose home embraced the well known Fairfield "Bar- low Plain." Her uncle, Samuel Cluckstone (son of Michael of Fairfield and, 1737, Norwalk Church-war- den) gave herself and husband the generous acreage, on the crest of which is now built the stone residence of Col. Frederick St. John Lockwood, in Norwalk. In the meadow fronting this home stood, until Tryon's invasion, the John and Esther Cannon house. The Cannon well, in which the family silver was secreted during the Tryon raid, is still marked, but every trace of the golden Cannon fruitage has finally disappeared. After her husband's decease, in 1796, Mrs. Cannon
was faithfully attended by Miss Azubia Hitchcock, who successfully plead with Tryon for the preserv- ation of the Thomas Belden house. She died at the residence of her son Samuel, (home in 1896 of Miss Julia A. Lockwood,) and was buried in the Cannon vault in St. Paul's churchyard, her young grand- children, in memory - respect to their ancestress, wearing white at her funeral and surrounding her open grave. Mrs. Cannon's father died August 9th, 1753. Her mother, after marrying, second, Captain Thomas Edwards of Stratford, died Nov. 8th, 1773, at the age of 75. Her uncle, by marriage, was Gov. John Talcott, and her great-nephew, Ebenezer Wake- man, was that "prominent civilian," the son of whom was, because of his father's standing, put at the head of his class by the Yale College faculty. (See Dex- ter's Yale Biographies, Vol. I, page 231.)
Esther Perry (Mrs. John Cannon, Sr.) had a brother Michael, who married, Dec. 8, 1742, Grace, daughter of Peter Sturges of Fairfield. Michael and Grace Perry had a son David, bap. Oct. 4, 1747, who was the father of Nehemiah Perry, Sr., M. D. of Ridge- field, and grandfather of Nehemiah Perry, 2nd. M.D., of that same town, who married Emily, daughter of the late Augustus Jennings of Southport, Conn. A younger nephew of Mrs. John Cannon, Sr., Sturges, born March 17, 1754, son of Michael and Grace Perry, married Sept. 18, 1779, Sarah, born Oct. 15, 1756, daughter of Ebenezer and Ruth Church of Norwalk. Sturges and Ruth Perry had a daughter Elizabeth, born in New York on Friday morning, Nov. 30, 1781, who married Richard Camp of Norwalk, and had Sarah Elizabeth ( Eliza ); Margaret; Esther Ann; Ruth Church and Samuel R. P.
* For information as to this will, the author is under obligation to E. N. Sheppard, genealogist, of New York City.
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Norwalk is, through Partrick default in the premises, confirmed to the distinguished New Haven representative and 1650 Deputy Governor, who, unlike Ludlow, made no after transfer whatever of the lands conveyed. It is even more curious that Partrick, the principal in the original transaction, should also have been remiss in the same particular. Nevertheless, it may here be added that as early as 1672, at least, "it was apparently Court-determined that the purchase of Capt. Partrick was included in the limits of, and rightly belonged to, the township of Norwalk."
There remained, in 1651, lands and islands "adjoyninge" and adjacent to the Lud- low and Partrick purchases (within the latter evidently) which came later to be known as the "division of Rooaton and the islands." These were deeded to the Norwalk pioneers by a Sachem of southwestern Norwalk, who, uniting with several of his fellows, executed an instrument known as the
DEED FROM RUNCKINGHEAGE.
This Indenture made the 15th of February 1651, Between Runckinheage, Piamikin, and Magise, and Towntom, and Winnapucke, and Magushetowes, and Concuskenow, and Wampasum, and Sasseakun, and Runckenunnett, and Pokessake, and Shoakecum, and So- anamatum, and Prodax, and Matumpun, and Cockeno-de-Long-Island, Indians, of the one Partie, and Richard Web, Nathaniel Eli, Matthewe Marvin, senr., Nathaniel Richards, Isacke More, Thomas Fitch, Thomas Hales, Richard Holmsted, Richard Seamer, Ralph Keeler, Matthew Marven, junior, Nathaniel Haies, Edward Church, Joseph Fitch, Planters of Nor- wake, for the use and behalfe of said Town, Witnesseth, that the said Runckinheage, and Piamikin, (&c. &c.) * * * * Have, and in and for the consideration of Thirtie Fathum of Wampum, Tenn Kettles, Fifteen Coates, Tenn payr Stockings, Tenn Knifes, Tenn Hookes, Twenty Pipes, Tenn Muckes, Tenn needles, to them in hand paid, Have, and Every of them, for themselves and their heyers, Granted, Bargained, Sold, assigned, Enfeoffed, and con- firmed ; and by these Presents doth Bargain, grant, sell, enfeoffe, assigne, sett over, and confirme, unto the said Richard Web, (&c. &c.) * * * all their lands called and known by the name of Runckinheage, Rooaton, or by whatsoever name or names the same is called or known, Lying and bounded on the East upon ye land purchased of Captain Patriarke, so called, on the West bounded with the Brook called Pampaskeshanke, which said Brook and passage, the Bounds West, Extendeth up into the Country by marked Trees ; and so far as the said Runckinheage, and the rest above mentioned, hath any Right and proprietie ; and the aforesaid Land bounded with the Brook called as afore- said Pampaskeshanke, from the aforesaid passage and path down along to the Sea. And the aforesaid Land bounded on the South with the Sea ; and on the North the Moehakes Country ; with all the islands, Trees, pastures, meadinge, water, water courses, Rights, members, and Appurtenances whatsoever, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, and quietly and peaceably injoy, all the aforesaid lands, &c. * * * unto the aforesaid Richard Web, &c. * * * and to their heyers forever. And the aforesaid Runckinheage and Piamikin, and Magise, and Townetom, Winnepucke, Magushetowes, Conkuskenow, Wampasum, Sassea-
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kun, Runckenunnutt, Pokessake, Shoakecum, Soanamatum, Prodax, Matumpun, Cockenoe- de-Longe-Island, Do by these presents, acknowledge to have received the aforesaid Thirtie fathum of Wampum, &c. * * * in full satisfaction. In witness whereof the above said parties have for themselves, and every of them, sett to their hands, the day and year above written to this present Indenture.
Signed and delivered in the presence of
STEPHEN BECKWITH, SAMUELL LUMES, SAMUEL ELY.
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Magi
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marke.
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Winna
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Conkus
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Recorded February ye 24th, 1708-9.
Pr. JOHN COPP, Recordr.
The " Courte " action of June 26, 1650, (see page 12) was succeeded by the decree bearing date September 11, 1651, and running :-
7
3 mark.
mark,
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"ORDERED, That Norwauke shall bee a Towne, and that they provide an inhabi- tant, according to order, who shall seasonably be tendered to take the oath of a Con- stable."
On the 6th day of the next month the demand came from Hartford that " Norwaack shall bee rated this p'sent yeare in . . . proporcon, according to the rule of rating in the Country, for . . . cattle, and other visible estate, and that Norwaack shall present to Mr. Ludlow . . . one inhabitant to bee sworne Constable."
The Constable was emphatically authority-clothed. His office was one of dignity and power. He represented law. When, consequently, the Court requested the nom- ination of a candidate for the position, it signified that the assembly considered the new settlement to be established and an organized body. Norwalk had now reached this point. It was competent to care for local interests, and had men of calibre and character to fill the place. As for the constable himself, while he was a limb of the law who was feared, yet he so compelled respect that when he led the jurymen into the court-room, there was profound silence. He was under solemn obligations to discharge his duty, as see note.1
Norwalk was in the fifth year of its age when Ludlow's New England mission was accomplished. His beautiful Fairfield,2 already a goodly creation of his genius, must be taken leave of, and the proprietor of one of the finest "home-lots" in the New World must quit his Connecticut domain. He embarked with his sons for (so it is believed) the South during 1654-5, leaving upon our town records, vol. 1, page 60, his valedictory trans- fer, executed not a long time before he sailed, never hither to return.
A Copie of the Assignment of Norwalke, purchased by Matr. Ludlowe, unto Norwalke In- habitants, Aprill the 13th. 1654.
Memoranda. That the saved Roger Ludlowe, doth by these pressentes, assigne and sett over unto Matbanfel Eli and the rest of the Inhabitants of norwalke, all my Title, interest, claime and demands whatsoever to the plant= ation of forwalke and every part thereof, and doe acknowledge myselfe sat= isfied for the same. Witnesse my band the day and peare above said.
RRe. Ludlowe.
II, A. B., of W. doe sweare by the greate and dreadfull name of the euerliuing God, that for the veare ensueing, and vntill a new be chosen, I will faythfully execute the office and place of a Constable, for and wthin the said plantacon of W : and the lym- itts thereof, and that I will endeuor to prsearue the publike peace of the said place, and Comonwealth, and will doe my best endeauor to see all watches and wairds executed, and to obey and execute all lawfull
comaunds or warrants that com fro any Magestrat or Magestrats or Courte, so help me God, in the Lo: Jesus Christ .- Trumbull's Connecticut Colonial Rec- ords, 1636, page 26.
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2A term of natural etymology, and yet the sug- gestion that Fairfield may possibly have supplanted Farfield is less easily dismissed, from the fact that Uncoway (the Indian designation of the locality) sig- nifies beyond.
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The date of the foregoing "Assignment" completed the three Ludlowlian periods in Norwalk history, viz. :- 1640, 1650 and 1654.
GABRIEL WILLIAM LUDLOW
No likeness of Roger Ludlow is known to be in existence, at least in America. \ portrait of a descendant. in the fourth generation from his brother Thomas, is alun e presented.
Much of the preceding may be more or less interesting reading, but much of it is the registration of what is of but little legal account. Indian purchase was highly honorable, and served a tentative purpose, but unchallenged right in law to the soil must, it has been officially decided, rest upon something more tenable than Indian treaty, Hence
"The Ludlow note, on page 6 of this volume, makes reference to the Gabriel William Ludlow-de- scended David Van Horne household. This family consisted of one son, Gen. David Van Horne, and six sisters, viz. : Mary (Mrs. Levinus Clarkson) ; Ann (Mrs. William Edgar) ; Susan (Mrs. George Turn- bull); Catharine (Mrs. Hon. Jacob Reed of Charles- ton, S. C.); Cornelia (Mrs. Phillip Livingston) and Elizabeth (Mrs. Charles Ludlow.)
These notable sisters of high connections and of mind and manner charms, were young New Yorkers during that Colony's emergency-period from crown allegiance to independence. At this time their father was dead, and town home closed, and they, with their mother, spent a good portion of their time near Flatbush, Long Island. This vicinity, now part of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, lay within the enemy's lines. The English officers were wont to hold re-
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NORWALK'S TITLE .*
Imprimis.
ENGLAND originally CLAIMED PROPERTY in and jurisdiction over what is now the STATE OF CONNECTICUT, and much adjoining territory, by virtue of its DISCOVERY by SEBASTIAN CABOT in 1497.
KING JAMES I, by royal writ, dated NOV. 3RD, 1620, incorporated several gentle- men, therein named, into "The COUNCIL established at PLYMOUTH in the COUNTY of DEVON for the planting, ruling and governing of NEW ENGLAND in AMERICA," and granted to such Corporation, its successors and assigns,
All that part of AMERICA lying and being in breadth from 40ยบ NORTH LATITUDE from the equinoctial line to the 48TH DEGREE of said North latitude inclusively, and in length of and within all the breadth aforesaid throughout the main lands FROM SEA to SEA.
The patent ordained that this tract should be named
* "Hew= England in America,"
and it included, of course, the present State of Connecticut.
The COUNCIL OF PLYMOUTH, in 1630, granted a tract of land, including the present State, to its president, ROBERT, EARL OF WARWICK, and he, on the 19TH OF MARCH. 1631, granted and confirmed the same tract unto WILLIAM, VISCOUNT SAY and SEAL, LORD BROOKS, and OTHERS.
The settlers of Connecticut are supposed to have acted in some way under this last patent until 1662, when they obtained from KING CHARLES THE SECOND, the CHAR- TER of CONNECTICUT hereinafter given.
The Two COLONIES which originally settled the State, (the "Colony of Connect- icut River" and "the New Haven Colony") were UNITED in one corporation, under the last named charter, in 1664-5.
ceptions and give parties, to which the Van Horne ladies, who were greatly admired, were often invited. Letters descriptive of these festivities and of the at- tention- bestowed on these ladies by His Majesty's officials, one of the most constant of whom, as a visitor to the Van Horne's, was Adjutant-Major John Andre, have been preserved in Norwalk, and are interesting scraps of history.
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The oldest sister, Mary, had married Levinus Clarkson, an union looked with considerable favor upon by her father and mother. Her oldest son, Levi- nu-, 2nd,, married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward P. and grand-daughter of Chancellor Robert R. Livings- ton, who administered the oath of office to George Washington. These had two children, Edward L. and Robert R. L. Clarkson.
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Extract from a note to one of her sisters, from Cath- urine Van Horne, (afterward Mrs. Jacob Reed, of Charleston, S. C.)
" Had yesterday a number of beaux to visit me. Who, of all people, do you think called for me to escort me out in a phaeton ? Sir George Collier, (Commodore of the squadron dispatched in 1779, to destroy New Haven, Fairfield and Norwalk.) My invention was at a stand to furnish an excuse. I felt myself in the situation that Cornelia did when asked by a friend of hers. I would have given anything for a friend to have helped me out of my embarrass- ment. To make me more conspicuous, he must needs parade me past the coffee-house. I was in an ill humor all the way. However, he was the quintes- sence of politeness."
Cornelia, alluded to in this note, married Philip Livingston, whose memory a window in the Chapel
*By Mesaro, Ferry, Woodward & Perry.
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The RECORD of the INCORPORATION of the TOWN OF NORWALK is AS FOLLOWS : At a GENERAL COURT in HARTFORD, 11th of SEPTEMBER, 1651. JOHN HAYNES, esquire, Gou'NO., Etc., Etc.
It is ordered, sentenced and decreed, etc., etc.
It is likewise ORDERED, that NORWALK shall be a TOWNE.
CONNECTICUT'S CHARTER.
KING CHARLES the Second TO GOVERNOUR and COMPANY of the ENGLISH COLONY of CONNECT- ICUT in NEW ENGLAND in AMERICA.
Charter of Connecticut, Dat. Apl. 23rd, 1662.
The King, in the above charter, after incorporating several individuals, "being per- sons principally interested in our colony or plantation of Connecticut in New England," and their successors under the above name, prescribing laws and rules for its regulation etc. etc., investing it with power "to have, take, possess, acquire and purchase lands, tenements, or hereditaments or any goods or chattels and the same to lease grant demise alien bar- gain sell and dispose of as other our liege people of this our realm of England or any other corporation or body politic within the same may lawfully do," continues as follows :
"And Iknow pe Further that we of our abundant grace certain knowledge and mere motion have given granted and confirmed and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors do give grant and confirm unto the said Governour and Company and their suc- cessors all that part of our dominions in New England in America bounded on the East by
of Our Holy Saviour, in Norwalk, perpetuates. The two were transient residents of Norwalk during the revolutionary war. Mr. Livingston, born Nov. 3rd, 1740, was the oldest son of Peter Van Brugh and Mary (Alexander) Livingston. Philip and Cornelia Liv- ingston had two children, Peter V. B., and Charles Ludlow Livingston. The first married Maria Hous- ton of Georgia, and had nine children. The second married Margaret Allen and had only one child, Cath- arine, who married, 1847, Walter Langdon of Hyde Park, son of Walter and Dorothea (Astor) Langdon, and uncle of Woodbury G. Langdon of Norwalk. These had no children who reached maturity.
Mr. and Mrs. Livingston resided in Park Place, New York. After her husband's death, the widow sold the handsome property to Goold Hoyt, Jr., of Norwalk, who, with his Philadelphia bride, lived there for many years and maintained an elegant establish- ment. Mr. Livingston's father resided at the Liv-
ingston Manor House, at Greenburgh-on-the-Hudson, the site monumentally marked on June 14, 1894, by the New York State Society Sons of the American Revolution. His mother was the daughter of the Earl of Stirling, Sr. Lady Kitty Stirling, daughter of the Earl of Stirling, Jr., and cousin of Philip Liv- ingston, married William A. Duer, LL.D., of New York, whose daughter Frances married Henry S., son of Goold Hoyt, Jr. Lady Kitty Stirling forward- ed letters which are still preserved in Norwalk.
The Van Horne sisters wrote oftenest to Ann, afterward Mrs. Edgar. She was the business daugh- ter and the executor of her father's estate. The fol- lowing is an extract from a letter to her (written in the same war days) from her sister Elizabeth, who married Charles Ludlow, whose father was great-gr- grand-nephew of Roger Ludlow, the purchaser of Norwalk.
"Set off to Flushing, where we are promised a
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Narraganset River, commonly called Narraganset Bay where the said River falleth into the sea ; and on the North by the line of the Massachusetts-Plantation ; and on the South by the Sea and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts Colony running from East to West, that is to say, from the said Narraganset Bay on the East, to the South Sea on the West part, with the Islands thereunto adjoining together with all firm lands, soils, grounds, havens, ports, rivers, waters, fishings, mines, minerals, precious stones, quarries, and all and singular other commodities, jurisdictions, royalties, privileges, franchises, pre-eminences and hereditaments whatsoever, within the said tract-bounds lands and islands aforesaid or to them or any of them belonging.
To have and To hold the same unto the said Governour and Company their suc- cessors and assigns forever upon trust and for the use and benefit of themselves and their associates freemen of the said colony their heirs and assigns to be holden of us. our heirs and successors, as of our manor of East-Greenwich in free-and-common socage and not in capite nor by knights-service yeilding and paying therefore to us, our heirs and successors, only the fifth part of all the ore of gold and silver which from time to time and at all times hereafter shall be there gotten, had, or obtained, in lieu of all services duties and demands whatsoever, to be to us our heirs or successors therefore or thereout rendered, made or paid."
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