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AND TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Quantity of Two Hundred and Fifty Acres together with the usual Allowance for Highways, also Part and Parcel of the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted ratified and confirmed with the Appurtenances to the same respectively belonging (Except as is herein before excepted) In Trust to and for each of the Persons severally herein next undermentioned (being also Persons named in the Schedule herein before mentioned) their Heirs and Assignes: That is to say, to and for the only Proper and Seperate
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Use and Behoof of Daniel Lindsay, Margret Mac Neil, Mary Mac Cloud, John Mac Duffie, Elizabeth Calwell, Jannet Ferguson, Isabella Livingston, John Mac Gowne Junior, Archibald Campbell Junior, Marian Campbell, Alexander Mac Arthur, Alexander Mac Donald Catherine Campbell, Jane Cargyle, Catherine Shaw, Catherine Mac Ilfender, Mary Torry, Mary Campbell, Elizabeth Cargill, Margaret Cargill, Ann Mac Arthur Senior, Mary Hammels, Margaret Mac Allister, and Margaret Gilchrist and each of them their and each of their Heirs and Assignes respectively forever, and to and for no other Use or Uses Intent or Purpose whatsoever
AND TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Quantity of two Hundred Acres together with the usual Allowance for Highways, also part and parcel of the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted ratified and confirmed, with the Appurtenances to the same respectively belong- ing (except as is herein before excepted) In Trust to and for each of the Persons severally herein next undermentioned (being also Persons named in the Schedule herein before mentioned) their Heirs and As- signes that is to say to and for the only proper and seperate Use and Behoof of Florence Mac Kinzie, Catherine Mac Carter, Hugh Mac Elvray, Marian Mac Euen Daughter of Neal Mac Euen, Elizabeth Frazier, and Elizabeth Roy and each of them, their and each of their Heirs and Assignes respectively for ever, and to and for no other Use or Uses Intent or Purpose whatsoever, Which same several smaller Tracts and Quantities of Land, the Uses and Trusts whereof are herein before respectively limited appointed and declared as aforesaid, amount to forty six Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty Acres of Land Part and Parcel of the Larger Tract of Forty seven Thousand four Hun- dred and fifty Acres of Land by these Presents Granted ratified and confirmed as aforesaid And as for and concerning the remaining five Hundred Acres with the Usual Allowance for Highways of the said Tract of Forty seven Thousand four Hundred and fifty Acres of Land
To HAVE AND TO HOLD the same with the Appurtenances there- unto belonging In Trust as a Glebe forever to and for the Use Benefit and Behoof of the Minister of the Gospel and Schoolmaster for the Time being resident and officiating on the said larger Tract of Land hereby granted, and to and for no other Use or Uses Intent or Purpose whatsoever: All and singular the said Tract of Land abutted bounded and described in manner above mentioned and Premises,
TO BE HOLDEN of us our Heirs and Successors in free and com- mon Socage as of our Manor of East Greenwich in our County of Kent within our Kingdom of Great Britain Yielding rendring and paying therefore yearly and every Year for ever unto us our Heirs and Successors, at our Custom House in our City of New York unto our or their Collector or Receiver General there for the Time being, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary commonly called Lady Day, the yearly Rent of two Shillings and six Pence
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sterling for each and every hundred Acres of the above granted Lands and so in Proportion for any lesser Quantity thereof, saving and except for such Part of the said Lands allowed for Highways as above men- tioned, in Lieu and Stead of all other Rents, Services, Dues, Duties and Demands whatsoever for the hereby granted Lands and Premises, or any Part thereof
AND for the more easy just and equitable determining, ascertaining and locating in the larger Tract of Land, by these Presents granted ratified and confirmed, the Situation and Place of each of the smaller Tracts or Lots of Land for which the Uses and Trusts have been herein before respectively declared limited and appointed it is our Royal Will and Pleasure that the same shall respectively be ascertained and deter- mined by Ballot: And for that Purpose we direct and appoint that the Trustees herein before nominated, their Heirs or Assigns or the Survivors or Survivor of the said Trustees, their or his Heirs or Assignes shall within one Month Next ensuing the Date hereof appoint some convenient Time and Place within our said Province for the Balloting aforesaid, and shall give Publick Notice thereof in all the Publick Newspapers of this Province for four Weeks successively, and on the Day and at the Place so appointed and notified every the Person and Persons to whose Use and Behoof respectively the said several Parcels or Quantities of Land are by these Presents held in Trust by the Trustees as aforesaid or their Heirs or Assignes, shall by themselves, or their Attorneys respectively draw Lots for the Place where the sev- eral and respective Quantities of Land aforesaid so holden for them respectively in Trust as aforesaid shall on the said larger Tract of Land hereby granted be located fixed and measured out to him or her: which same Drawing shall continue there from Day to Day until the whole is finished: And in case any of the said Persons their Heirs or Assignes for whose Use any of the said Quantities of Land are respec- tively held in Trust as aforesaid, shall fail to appear by themselves or their Attorneys respectively on the Balloting aforesaid: Then our Will and Pleasure is That the said Trustees or either of them their Heirs or Assignes shall draw Lots for such of them as shall so fail to appear, and such Location as shall so be drawn for them respectively shall be the Location of their several and respective Shares and Quan- tities of the said Land AND our Will and Pleasure further is, and we do by these Presents further declare and appoint That as soon after the Balloting herein before directed as conveyniently can be; The Trustees herein before mentioned, their Heirs or Assignes or the Survivors or Survivor of them their or his Heirs or Assignes shall cause the larger Tract of Land hereby granted to be surveyed and divided and the several and respective Quantities of Land aforesaid Parts of the said larger Tract to be respectively located laid out and measured for the Persons for whom they are respectively held in Trust as aforesaid by these Presents in the Place and Places in the said
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larger Tract where on the Ballotting aforesaid the Share or Shares of such Person shall be fixed and ascertained by Lot as aforesaid, and shall convey the same with the Appurtenances by good and sufficient Assurances in the Law to the said Persons respectively their respective Heirs and Assigns or to such other Person or Persons as they shall respectively nominate and appoint their Heirs and Assigns respectively forever. To their only proper and seperate Use and Behoof respec- tively forever. He or they respectively paying the Charge and Costs of such Conveyances and their Proportionable Part of all such Fees and Expences as the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns or the Sur- vivors or Survivor of them his or their Heirs or Assigns shall be put to and expend in and for the obtaining this our Grant, and in making the division of the said Lands with lawfull Interest for the same, from the respective Times of disbursing and expending the same and every respective Part thereof, the said Proportions to be struck according to the Quantities of Acres in each share respectively
PROVIDED ALWAYS and it is our Royal Intent that the said Trustees their Heirs and Assigns and the Survivors and Survivor of them, their or his Heirs or Assignes, shall and may before any other Location; Locate and lay out the five Hundred Acres of Land with the Usual Allowance for Highways holden by of thes Presents, in Trust as a Glebe for the Use of the Minister of the Gospel and Schoolmaster as aforesaid, in such part of the said larger Tract of Land hereby granted as to the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns or the Survivors or Survivor of them his or their Heirs or Assignes shall seem most convenient and proper to answer the good Ends we thereby propose; any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
PROVIDED also and it is our further Royal Intent and Purpose . in this our Grant, that if the Persons their Heirs or Assignes to whose Use the said several and respective Quantities and Lots of Land afore- said are by Virtue of these Presents held in Trust, and directed to be conveyed as aforesaid, or any or either of them, shall not within one Year after Publick Notice given by the said Trustees their Heirs or Assignes, or the Survivors or the Survivor of them, their or his Heirs or Assignes, in all the News Papers of our said Province, apply to the said Trustees their Heirs or Assignes or the Survivors or Survivor of them his or their Heirs or Assignes, or to some or one of them, for the respective Conveyances above directed to be made to them respec- tively for their several Shares and Lots aforsaid, and pay or cause to be paid to the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns, or the Survivors or Survivor of them their or his Heirs or Assignes, or some or one of them, the Charge and Cost of such Conveyances respectively, and their respective proportionable Part of all such Fees and expences as the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns or the Survivors or Survivor of them, their or his Heirs or Assignes shall be put to, Disburse and expend in
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and for obtaining this our Grant and in making the Division of the said Lands: With lawfull Interest as aforesaid, that then and in such case it shall and may be lawfull for the said Trustees their Heirs or Assignes or the Survivors or Survivor of them their or his Heirs or Assignes, to sell and dispose of the share and shares Lot and Lots of the said Persons so failing and to convey a good Estate in Fee Simple of in and to the said Share and Shares Lot and Lots respectively to such Person or Persons as shall purchase the same: And out of the Monies arising by the Sale thereof respectively to pay and reimburse themselves the said Proportionable Share of the Costs and Expences aforesaid, with lawfull Interest as aforesaid, and shall render the Over- plus Money, if any there be, to the said Person or Persons so failing their Heirs or Assignes, and the Person or Persons their Heirs and Assignes respectively, for whose Use the same is hereby held in Trust as aforesaid, shall be by the said Sale and Conveyance respectively de- barred and estopped from claiming or in any wise having any Right or Title in Law or Equity to such the said several Shares and Lots as shall be so sold and conveyed: and the said sales and Conveyances respectively we do hereby consent and agree shall to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever be good against us our Heirs or Successors, any Thing herein before contained to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding
AND WHEREAS divers of the Persons for whose Use divers Quantities of the Lands hereby granted are respectively held in Trust as afore- said by these Presents, being Women, who are mentioned and named in these Presents, by their Maiden Names may at the Time of Issuing this our Grant be lawfully married, and thereby their respective Names be changed to the Names of their respective Husbands AND WHEREAS also divers others of the said Persons may now be dead, it is therefore our further Will and Pleasure, and we do hereby direct limit and appoint in every Case where any the said Women have married or are now married that the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns, or the Survivors or Survivor of them their or his Heirs or Assigns, upon Application and Payment of a Proportionate share of the Fees and Expences Costs and Charges aforesaid, within the Time and in the manner herein before mentioned, with Interest as aforesaid shall convey the respective Lots and Quantities of Land so holden in Trust for them respectively, to them their Heirs and Assignes respectively forever by the Name they shall respectively bear, or be Known by at the Time or Times the same shall be conveyed to them respectively. And in Case any the. said Persons shall be dead as aforesaid, then it is our Royal Will and Pleasure and we do hereby direct limit and appoint that the said Trustees their Heirs or Assigns or the Survivors or Survivor of them, their or his Heirs or Assigns shall upon application and Pay- ment of a proportionable Share of the said Costs, Fees Expences and Charges within the Time and in the Manner herein before mentioned
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with Interest as aforesaid, convey the respective Share and Shares Lot and Lots hereby holden in Trust for such Person and Persons respec- tively to the Heirs of such Persons so dead, and to their Heirs and Assigns for ever.
AND the said several Conveyances and each of them respectively shall be good and effectual in the Law to all Intents, constructions and pur- poses whatsoever against us our Heirs and Successors and all and every other Person and Persons whatsoever claiming or to claim the same or any Part thereof by Virtue of these Presents, any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding AND WE do of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Mo- tion, create, erect and constitute the large Tract or Parcel of Land hereby Granted, and abutted bounded and described in Manner and Form as is herein before particularly set forth, and every Part and Parcel thereof, a TOWNSHIP for ever hereafter to, be, continue and remain, and by the Name of ARGYLE forever hereafter to be called and Known
AND for the better and more easily carrying on and managing the Publick Affairs and Business of the said Township our Royal Will and Pleasure is, and WE do hereby for us our Heirs and Successors give and grant to the Inhabitants of the said Township all the Powers Authorities Privileges and Advantages heretofore given and granted to, or legally enjoyed by all, any, or either of our other Townships within our said Province; and We also ordain and establish that there shall be forever hereafter in the said Township, one Supervisor, Two Assessors, one Treasurer, Two Overseers of the Highways Two Over Seers of the Poor, one Collector, and Six Constables, elected and chosen out of the Inhabitants of the said Township yearly and every Year on the first Tuesday in May, at the most Publick Place in the said Town- ship, by the Majority of the Freeholders thereof, then and there met and assembled for that Purpose Hereby declaring that wheresoever the first Election in the said Township shall be held, the future Elections shall forever thereafter be held in the same Place as near as may be, and giving and granting to the said Officers so chosen Power and Authority to exercise their said several and respective Offices, during one whole Year from such Election, and until others are legally chosen and Elected in their Room and Stead, as fully and amply as any the like officers have or legally may use or exercise their Offices in our said Province, and in Case any or either of the said Officers shall die or remove from the said Township, before the Time of their Annual Service respectively shall be expired, or refuse to act in the Offices for which they shall respectively be chosen: Then our Royal Will and Pleasure further is, and we do hereby direct ordain and require the Freeholders of the said Township to meet at the Place where the annual Ellection shall be held for the said Township, and chuse other or others of the said Inhabitants in the place and Stead of him or
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them so dying Removing or refusing to Act within forty Days next after such Contengency.
AND to prevent any undue Election in this Case: WE do hereby ordain and require that upon every Vacancy in the Office of Super- visor; the Assessors, and in either of the other Offices, the Supervisor of the said Township shall within ten Days next after such Vacancy shall happen, appoint the Day for such Election, and give Publick Notice thereof in writing under his or their Hands by affixing such Notice on the Church Door, or other most Publick Place in the said Township, at the least Ten days before the Day appointed for such Election.
AND in Default thereof we do hereby require the Officer or Officers of the said Township or the Survivor of them, who in the order they are herein before mentioned shall next succeed him or them so making Default, within ten Days next after such Default to appoint the day for such Election and give Notice thereof as aforesaid Hereby giving and granting that such Person or Persons as shall so be chosen by the Majority of such of the Freeholders of the said Township as shall meet in the manner hereby directed, shall have, hold, Exercise and Enjoy the Office or Offices to which he or they shall be so elected and chosen, from the Time of such Election, until the first Tuesday in May then next following, and until other or others, be legally chosen in his or their Place and Stead, as fully as the Person or Persons in whose Place he or they shall be chosen, might or could have done by Virtue of these Presents; AND WE Do hereby Will and direct that this Method shall for ever hereafter be used for the filling up all Vacancies that shall happen in any or either of the said Offices between the annual Elections above directed.
PROVIDED ALWAYS and upon Condition, nevertheless that if the said Trustees or the Persons for whom the said several Quantities and Lots of Land are by Virtue of these Presents held in Trust as aforesaid, or some or one of them, their or some or one of their Heirs or Assignes, shall not within four Years next after the Date hereof Settle on the said larger Tract of Land hereby granted so many Families as shall amount to one Family for every Thousand Acres thereof, or if they the said Trustees or the Persons for whom the said several Quantities and Lots of Land are hereby held in Trust as aforesaid or some or one of them, their or some or one of their Heirs or Assignes shall not also within four Years to be computed as aforesaid Plant and effectually Cultivate at the least three Acres for every fifty Acres of such of the hereby granted Lands as are capable of Cultivation, or if they the said Trustees, or the Persons for whom the said several Quantities and Lots of Land are held in Trust as aforesaid or any of them, their or any of their Heirs or Assignes or any other Person or Persons by their or any of their privity consent or Procurement shall fell cut down or otherwise destroy any of the Pine Trees by these Presents reserved to
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us our Heirs and Successors, or hereby Intended so to be, without the Royal Licence of us our Heirs or Successors for so doing first had and obtained, that then and in any of these Cases this our Present Grant and every thing therein contained shall shall cease and be absolutely void, and the Lands and Premises hereby granted shall revert to and Vest in us our Heirs and Successors, as if this our present Grant had not been made: Any thing herein before contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.
PROVIDED Further and upon Condition also Nevertheless, and we do hereby for us our Heirs and Successors direct and appoint, that this our present Grant shall be registered and entered on Record within six Months from the Date hereof in our Secretary's Office in our City of New York, in our said Province in one of the Books of Patents there remaining; and that a Doquet thereof shall be also entered in our Auditors Office there for our said Province, and that in Default thereof this our Present Grant shall be void and of none Effect, anything before in these Presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise Notwithstanding. And WE do moreover of our especial Grace certain Knowledge and meer Motion consent and agree that this our Present Grant being registered recorded and a Docquet thereof made as before directed and appointed shall be good and effectual in the Law to all Intents Constructions and Purposes whatsoever against us our Heirs and Successors, Notwithstanding any Misreciting, Misbounding, Mis- naming or other Imperfection or Omission of in or in anywise con- cerning the above granted or hereby mentioned or intended to be granted Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and Premises or any Part thereof, and of in or in anywise concerning the Trustees aforesaid or the Persons for whose Use any the said Lands and Premises are held in Trust as aforesaid or any of them.
IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said Province to be hereunto affixed.
WITNESS our said Trusty and Well beloved Cadwallader Colden Esquire our Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over our said Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America: at our Fort in our City of New York the thirteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven Hundred and sixty four and of our Reign the fourth. First Skin Line 36 the Word last interlined. Second Skin Line 47 the Word from wrote on an Erazure. 3d. Skin Line 1st. the Word and Wrote on Erazure and Line 6, the Words and Businesss and the word us and Line 22 the Words shall be chosen interlined.
Clarke
In the preceeding Certificate and Letters Patent recorded for the Trustees therein named, the following Interlineations &ca. appear- Page 2 Line 3 the Word the, Line 36 (then along the said East Bounds of the said Tract surveyed for Donald Campbell and others) ; Page 4
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Line 1 the Word his: Line 12 the Word the: Page 5 Line 20 the Word said; and Line 21 the Word the interlined; Page 8 Line 30 the Word and wrote on an Erazure Page 9 Line 35 the Word said Page 11 Line 5 the Word the Line 19 Word or Line 20 the Word so and Line 35 the Word the Page 12 line 10 the Word other: line 17 the Word contrary; and Line 38 the Word Assigns Page 13 Line 7 the Words (or Assigns and the Person or Persons their Heirs) Page 15 Line 1 the Word Days; and Page 16 Line 19 the Word a interlined; and Line 36 Word wrote on an Erazure- Examined with the Original this 21th. Day of March 1764 By
G w Banyar D Secry.
Document VII
GRANTEES NAMED IN THE ARGYLE PATENT WITH THEIR HOLDINGS
LOT NAME
ACRES LOT
NAME
ACRES
77 Alex. Montgomery 600
71 Archibald McNiven 350
32 Alex. McNaughton 600
86 John McArthur 350
87 Neil Shaw .600
34 William Fraser 350
22 Dougall McCallor 550
124 William Clark 350
108 James Gillis .500
15 Ann McDuffie 350
107 Neil McDonald 500
. . Arch. McCollum Sr 350
59 John McEuen 500
75 Duncan McDougall .500
109 Archibald McDougall .450
64 Neil McEachron 450
127 Donald McMillan 450
70 John Reid .450
102 John McArthur .400
95 John McDougall 400
69 Hannah McEuen .400
119 Dougall Thompson 400
23 Daniel Johnston 350
111 Patrick McArthur .350
5 Mary Campbell .350
122 Duncan Taylor .600
20 Duncan Read 600
104 Malcolmn McDuffie .550
82 Edward McCallor 500
138 Duncan Gilchrist .500
81 Duncan McGuire 500
44 Duncan McArthur 450
40 Robert Campbell Jr 450
4 Neil Gillaspie .450
36 Duncan Campbell Sr. 450
16 Ranald McDougall 400
101 George McKinzie 400
42 John McGuire 400
19 Duncan McDuffie 350
131 Duncan Lindsay 350
Arch. McCollum Jr 350
135 John McIntyre 350
29 Daniel Clark 350
92 Dougall McDuffie 350
61 James McDonald 350
132 Daniel Shaw 350
6 Duncan McKinvan 350
51 Charles McArthur 350
28 Alexander Campbell 350
43 Elizabeth McNeil 300
130 John Shaw Ju. 300
12 Dougall McAlpine 300
37 Neil McFaden 300
126 Mary Anderson Sr 300
125 Barbara McAllister .300
3 Allan McDonald 300
17 Archibald McGowne 300
48 John McFail 300
25 William Hunter 300
52 Duncan McFadden 300
65 Hugh Montgomery 300
120 Mary Graham 300
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31 Donald McIntire 350
76 Alexander Chrstie 350
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LOT NAME ACRES LOT
129 Alexander McDougall .. 350
. . Archibald Campbell .300
115 Edward McCoy
300
91 James Nutt 300
10 Mary Anderson Jr
300
97 Charles McAlister
300
100 James Campbell
300
113 John Shaw Sr.
300
Neil Carmicheal
300
141 David Torry 300
134 John McArthur 300
.. John McCallman 300
62 Mary Beaton
300
98 William Graham 300
50 John McGours Sr.
99 Hugh McDougall 300
72 Rachel McNiven 300
83 Alexander Gilchrist 300
106 Archibald McEuen 300
11 Archibald McIlfender . 300
80 Angus McDougall 300
121 Robert McAlpine 300
88 Duncan Campbell (3) .. 300
55 Ann Campbell 300
73 James Cargill 300
94 Jane Widrow 300
114 Angus Graham 300
96 Ann McArthur 300
33 John McCore 300
93 George Campbell 300
18 Eleanor Thompson 300
13 Daniel Lindsay 250
140 Mary McLeod 250
123 Elizabeth Caldwell 250
66 Isabella Livingston 250
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