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On the back of the patent it is endorsed by Register Read as having been recorded in the Secretary's office at Burlington.
It sounds oddly at the present day to read such high sounding titles as are found on the patent : " George 2d, King of Great Britain, France, Ireland, Defender of the Faith," &c., "grants of his especial grace, certain knowl- edge, and meer motion," &c. And what weighty titles has Governor Belcher! "Captain-General, and Governor-in- Chief, Chancellor, Vice Admiral," &c.
This patent will be deposited in the office of the County Clerk of Ocean County.
THE FOUNDERS OF MONMOUTH.
WHO THEY WERE AND FROM WHENCE THEY CAME.
"Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of the fathers."-JOB VIII-8.
If the people of any section of this great country have reason to be proud of their ancestry, the people of Monmouth most assuredly have. New Englanders never tire of boasting of the Pilgrim fathers, but a noted writer of history in an adjoining state, more than half a century ago, has said that "East Jersey was settled by the best blood of New England." (I. F. Watrous in Annals of Philadelphia.) The Pilgrim Fathers, the New England- ers now take pleasure in telling us, were not all Puritans of the straight-laced, persecuting order, but that a large
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A WOMAN, OF COURSE.
proportion had respect for persons who conscientiously differed from them in religious opinion. And of this class of the Pilgrim Fathers we find were the principal men who founded the settlement in Monmouth.
The first opinion left on record of the section of country now known as Monmouth is that which was re- corded in the log-book of the ship Half Moon, Sir Henry Hudson, commander. On the night of the 2d of Septem- ber, 1609, he anchored along the beach not far from Long Branch, with the Highlands of Nevisink in sight, and his mate recorded the following in the log-book :
"This is a very good land to fall in with and a pleas- ant land to see."
Every good citizen of the county, it is safe to say, will cordially endorse that opinion at the present day !
A WOMAN, OF COURSE !
To a woman, it may be said, should the credit be given of being the cause of the earliest efforts by whites to settle in Monmouth. Penelope Stout, whose remark- able history is too well known to repeat here, during her captivity among the Indians, had made friends with them, and after she had reached New Amsterdam and had married Richard Stout, she induced her husband occasionally to sail across the bay to visit her pre- server and other Indian friends, and it is reasonable to presume that on these trips they were sometimes accompanied by white friends. These visits so well satisfied Richard Stout and his Dutch friends that "this was a good land to fall in with," that about 1648, him- self and four or five other heads of families settled where Middletown now is. But they remained here only a few years, as they were compelled to leave on account of a war breaking out between the Dutch and Indians, In 1663 some Gravesend men attempted to make ar- rangements with the Indians of Monmouth for settling, but they were warned off by the Dutch, but the year after, the English took possession of New York and the Gravesend men renewed the attempt.
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A MEMORABLE SCENE.
From what has been left on record it would seem that in the hall of the old Stadt House in New York, one day two hundred and twenty years ago, there was an as- semblage of men whose meeting was one of the most im- portant events connected with founding the settlements in what is now Monmonth County. It must have been a scene well worthy the efforts of the painter, both for the importance of the object and principles these men had met to decide upon and for the striking contrasts in the appearance of the different parties present. The leading person in this meeting was the new British governor of New York, Colonel Nicholls, who we may presume was attended by his staff, and arraved in the uniform of the British officer of his time. Then there were men in broad brimmed hats, knee breeches and shad-bellied coats, giving evidence of their Quaker faith. Some few were probably dressed in the then usual style of the Dutch citizen of New Amsterdam, a style so graphically described by Diedrick Knickerbocker in his history of New York. Others in- terested in the proceedings were probably in the usual fashion of the Pilgrim fathers of that day. But most striking of all was the appearance of a number of Indian chiefs, the sachems of the section now known as Mon- mouth county. Some of these had probably so far adopted the fashion of the whites as to wear coats-the coarse, loose woolen "match coat," to which the Indians took a fancy, but it was many years before they took to panta- loons ; "Indian's legs stand cold like white man's face," said one of them. When these. Indians appeared before Colonel Nicholls in 1665, no white men lived in Momnouth, but certain residents of Gravesend, Long Island, had visited it and found it "a good land to fall in with" and a desirable land to settle upon. They had interviewed the Indians and secured their friendship and made treat- ies which were signed by the sachems, and they had paid them to their full satisfaction for their land. But before taking possession or commencing settlements, they
A MEMORABLE SCENE.
desired also to obtain a title from the representative of the British crown. So these conscientious men had sailed from Gravesend across to the shores of Monmouth and gathered together the sachems and took them in their vessel across the bay, and up to New York, and then to the State House to call on the Governor. Colonel Nicholls was already aware that these Gravesend men wished to obtain a patent for the land, but the object of this assembly was to have the Governor receive the personal assurances of the sachems themselves that their land had been paid for to their full satisfaction, and that. they desired these men to settle on it. The governor at this meeting receiving from the chiefs themselves these assurances, decided to grant the patent ; but the Graves- end men wished that this instrument should not only show that the lands had been honorably purchased of the Indians, but they also insisted that in it should be put a pledge of unrestricted religious toleration for set- tlers under it. The result was the issuing the celebrated document known as the Monmouth Patent, with its declaration that the land had been honorably purchased of the Indians, and with it its guarantee of unrestricted religious toleration. This patent was recorded in the office of the Recorder of New York, November 8th, 1665; it was also the first instrument recorded in the archives of the State at Trenton and in the County records at Freehold.
Some seventeen years later, William Penn made his celebrated treaty with the Indians, and how his praises have been sounded for paying them for their land! Our Monmouth ancestors had done the same thing without boast or assumption of superior justice long before Wil- liam Penn came to America or had even turned Quaker. The year that the Indian sachems of Monmouth ap- peared before Governor Nicholls was the same year that William Penn, armed and equipped as a soldier, took part in the siege of a townin Ireland. The fact of Penn's making a treaty with the Indians and paying them for their land has been thought so remarkable that pictures
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of the scene may be found in books in every school in the land ; but that scene in New York when the sachems pointed to the founders of Monmouth, saving in sub- stance, "These men have paid us for our land-give them a patent," has a prior right to be commemorated.
THE FIRST ENGLISH SETTLER OF NEW JERSEY.
In the efforts to treat with the Indians for their land, we may feel assured that Richard Stout, the first English settler of New Jersey, was the principal agent. An En- glishman by birth, he had lived so long among the Dutch, and with a Dutch wife, that he was familiar with their language, which must have been also familiar to his chil- dren in their early years. And several years' residence among the Indians must have made him acquainted with their language, also. From their acquaintance with him and knowledge of his fair dealings, the Indians no doubt had formed a favorable opinion of his associates. When Gravesend was settled about 1645, Richard Stout was one of the thirty-nine original settlers. The consent of the Indians having been obtained and the patent granted, the next step on the part of the patentees was to secure the one hundred settlers within the three years, as re- quired by the patent. This necessitated energetic efforts on the part of the projectors. Of course the Gravesend men did what they could, but they had a small field to work in, but they received most effective help from New- port, Rhode Island.
THE TWELVE PATENTEES.
It would naturally be supposed that the twelve men named in the Monmouth patent would be among the actual settlers, but the fact is, only four of them settled here, viz: Richard Stout, James Grover, John Bowne and Richard Gibbons. Many years after, it is supposed, James Hubbard came in his old age. William Goulding, Samuel Spicer, Sr., and John Tilton remained at Graves-
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end. Nathaniel Sylvester remained at his home at Shelter Island, at east end of Long Island. Obadiah Holmes and Walter Clarke remained in Rhode Island. Nicholas Davis, of Newport, R. I., was drowned about 1672. Wil- liam Reape, an active, energetic promoter of the settle- ment, was a young Quaker merchant of Newport, who died 1670; his widow, Sarah Reape, came to Monmouth and her only son, William, lived with her, but was insane from early manhood. Members of the families .of most of the patentees, however, came here, and of course, all are entitled to honor for efforts to aid in establishing the settlement of the county.
THE RHODE ISLAND MONMOUTH ASSOCIA- TION.
While the Gravesend men seem to have initiated the movement, yet residents of Newport, Rhode Island, were considerably in the majority in making the movement successful, by furnishing the greater part of the money to pay the Indians for their land, and in inducing persons to settle Qu it. It is very evident that there was quite an intimate intercourse between the English residents of Gravesend and the citizens of Newport, and in some cases families of these places were nearly related.
At Newport an association or "company of purchas- ers" was formed to aid the settlement of Monmouth, of which Walter Clarke, subsequently governor of that colony, was secretary, and of which William Reape was probably the most effective member. Reape's business as a merchant caused him to travel much on Long Island and to various towns in Massachusetts, which gave him opportunities to enlist recruits for the project, and he was such a zealous Quaker that he was arrested in Plymouth Colony by the Puritans, and on Long Island by the Dutch for traveling with Quaker preachers.
It seems difficult to account for the substantial as- sistance given to the effort to secure the one hundred men within the required time, by men at Sandwich, Yarmouth, Salem and other towns in Massachusetts, except on the
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HISTORY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.
theory that Willam Reape, the busy, energetic young Quaker, in his travels enlisted them in the cause.
Most of the Rhode Island and Long Island men who aided in settling Monmouth had previously lived in Mas- sachusetts, and a number were of English birth.
Several years ago the Proceedings of the B ;- Cen- tennial Celebration of the New Jersey Legislature were published by the State, and in the Appendix the writer gave a list of first settlers of Monmouth, with the places from which each came as far as then ascertained. This list was substantially copied in the recent history of Mommonth county, but it was incomplete, and the compiler of that history added a few items, some of which need correction.
The following is a Est of some of the names, alpha- betically arrange, of the persons who contributed tow- ard buying the land in Mormouth of the Indians and for incidental expenses in treating with them, and also the amount paid by each :
€ s. d.
Christopher Alliney of R. I. 4 *Job Allmey, 1
John Allen and Robert Taylor, R. I. 3 Steven Arnold, 3
John Bowne, of Gravesend, L. I. 1
*John Bowne, of Flushing, L. 1 3
James Bowne, L. I. 1
14 6
William Bowne. L. I 1 06
8
Gerrard Bourne, R. I. . 1
10
Richard Borden, R. I 11
Benjamin Borden and George Mount G
Nicholas Browne. R. I 1
*Francis Brinley, R I. 3
10
John Conklin, L. I.
()
15
*Walter ('larke, R. I. 3
Robert Carr, R. I 3
*Robert Carr and Walter Clarke, R. I 1 *John Coggeshall. 3
*Joshua Coggeshall and Daniel Gould, R. I. 3
10
*Wm. Coddington. R. I 3 Thomas Clifton, R. I. 3
10
John Cooke, R. I 3
George Chutte, R. I 3
10
*Henry Bull, R. I. 3
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Thomas Cox, L. I.
€ s. d. 3 10
Joseph Coleman. . 3
*Nicholas Davis, R. I 8 Roger Ellis and Son, Mass.
*Peter Esson (Easton, ) R. I. 3
James Grover, L. 1 4
Richard Gibbons, L. I 4
* Zachary Ganntt, R. I. 1
10
William Gonkling. L. I. 4
* Ralph Goldsmith, " 3 10
*Daniel Gould (see J. Coggeshall, ) R. I. 3
Samuel Holliman (Holman) . 3
John Horabin 2
1 8
Obadiah Hohes, R. I 4
Jonathan Holmes, R. I. 3
Tobias Handson, (R. I ?).
1
John Hance (Wales?) 4
*William James, R. I 1
5
*John Jenkins, Mass. 3
John Jenkins and Wm. Shaddnek, Mass 2
Edmund Lafetra (Huguenot ?). 3 10
Henry Lippitt, R. I .. 4
Richard Lippencott, L. I 16
10
Francis Masters, (N. Y. ? )
3 10
George Mount (see B. Burdan)
Thomas Potter, R. I.
Edward Pattison, Mass
4
John Ruckman, L. I 4
Richard Richardson 4
Samuel Spicer, L. I
4
Richard Stont,
4
*Nath'l Sylvester, L. I
6
Thomas Shaddock, (Mass ?). 3
Wm. Shaddock and Geo. Webb, Mass. 1
William Shaddock (see J. Jenkins). .
Edward Smith, R. 1. . 3
Robert Story, N. Y. City 9
Wm. Shaberly, Barbadoes. 4
Richard Sussell, R. I. 1
10
John Tilton, L. I . 4
*John Throckmorton, R. I. 1
6 8
John Townsend, L. I 1
*Edward Thurston, R. I 3
Nathan Tomkins, R. I. 4
Edward Tartt, (Mass?)
3 17 6 Robert Taylor (see J. Allen, ) R. I. Emannel Woolley, R. I. 3
4
*Thomas Moor, L. I
1
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€ s. d. 3
Thos. Winterton, R. I.
*Edward Wharton, Mass 3
Eliakim Wardell,
4
Geo. Webb (see Wm. Shaddock, Mass.)
Thomas Whitlock, L. I.
3. 17 6
Bartholomew West, R. I.
4
Robert West, R. I.
4
Walter Wall, L. I.
4
John Wall,
3
10
John Wilson, .
4
John Wood, R. I. 4 10
In addition to the above named the following per- sons were also purchasers or settlers, probably before the expiration of the three years' limit in the Patent : James Ashton, R. I.
Joseph Bryce.
Bartholoman Lippencott, L. I. William Layton, R. I.
John Bird,
Wm. Lawrence, L. I.
Abraham Brown, (R. I. ? )
James Leonard, Mass.
Wm. Cheesman, L. I.
Lewis Mattox, R. I.
Wir. Compton,
Wm. Newman, (Mass ?)
Jacob Cole.
Joseph Parker, R. I.
Benj. Deuell, R. I.
Peter Parker, 66
Thomas Dungan, R. I.
Anthony Page.
Daniel Estell, L. I.
Henry Percy, R. I.
Gideon Freeborn, R. I.
William Rogers.
William Gifford, Mass.
William Reape, R. I.
James Grover, Jr., L. I.
John Slocum, R. I.
Thomas Hart, R. I.
Samuel Shaddock, Mass.
John Hall, R. I.
Wm. Shearman, R. I.
Robt. Hazard, (R. I. ? )
John Smith, (R. I .? )
James Heard, (Mass?)
John Stout, L. I.
Randall Huet, Sr., N. Y.
Richard Sadler.
John Hawes, Randall Huet, Jr., N. Y.
Barth. Shamquesque.
John Tomson, Mass.
Joseph Huet, 66
Job Throckmorton, R. I.
George Hulett, (R. I. ? )
Peter Tilton, L. I.
John Havens, R. I.
Thos. Wansick.
John Jobs.
Robt. West, Jr., R. I.
Robert Jones, N. Y.
Thos. Wright.
Gabriel Kirk.
Marmaduke Ward, R. I.
John Jenkins, of Sandwich, Mass., sold his share of land July 6th, 1670, to George Allen, a noted Quaker of
The persons marked with an asterisk (* ) did not settle in the County, and most of them transferred their claims to others. Afew who were quite prominent in the first settlement of the county eventually went back to Rhode Island, among whom were Steven Arnold, Jonathan Holmes but Christopher Allmey.
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Sandwich, some of whose descendants came to Mon- mouth.
Daniel Gould of Newport, R. I., and Joshua Gogges- hall of Portsmouth, R. I., also sold shares to George Allen, July 7th, 1670.
Walter Clarke also sold a share to George Allen, September 1st, 1672.
Thomas Moore, who was a prominent citizen of Southold, L. I., sold his share to Capt. Christopher Allmey, August 24, 1674.
Robert Story, who was the leading Quaker in New York City, sold his share to John Jay of Barbadoes, W. I.
William Shaberly, also of Barbadoes, sold his share to John Jay.
Robert Carr of Rhode Island, sold his share to Giles Slocum of Portsmouth, who conveyed the same to his son, Captain John Slocum, November 22, 1672.
Zachary Gauntt sold his share to his brother, An- nanias, in 1668.
William Goulding of Long Island, sold his share to Richard Hartshorne.
Samuel Borden of Portsmouth, R. I., sold his share, 1671, to Lewis Mattox of the same place.
Governor, William Coddington, was said to be the wealthiest man in Rhode Island ; the writer has found no record of his transferring his share, but thinks it possi- ble that George Hulett, an original settler, may have occupied it, as a person of that name was in Governor Coddington's employ, 1664, and previously, and the name disappears in Rhode Island after 1664.
Job Allmey. This name is now generally given as Almy. Job and his brother, Christopher, both paid for shares of land in the original purchase of lands from the Indians. They were sons of William Almy, who it is supposed came over with Governor Winthrop to Massa- chusetts about 1631, and returned to England for his family, 1635. He located first at Lynn, Mass., next at Sandwich, and in 1644 settled at Portsmouth, a town in close proximity to Newport, R. I. William Almy was
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born about 1601 and died 1676. He is said to have been a member of the Society of Friends. His son, Christo- pher, who came to Monmouth, was born in England about 1632, and died January 30, 1713. Job Almy was probably born in Massachusetts, and he died in the Spring of 1684 at Portsmouth, R. I. He married Mary Unthank of Warwick, R. I., and left several children. He held several honorable positions in the colony of Rhode Island-was deputy in the Colonial Assembly, 1670-2, Governor's assistant, 1673, etc.
Francis Brinley. This gentleman was a Governor's assistant and leading judge in Rhode Island. He was a- son of Thomas Brinley, who was auditor of revenues of Charles 1st and 2d. A sister of Francis Brinley married Nathaniel Sylvester, one of the Monmouth patentees. A descendant of the Brinley family, named Edward, mar- ried Janet Parker of the Amboy Parker family, and one of their children was the well remembered surveyor gen- eral of East Jersey, Francis W. Brinley.
Henry Bull. This honest, indomitable old Quaker, one of the active friends of the settlement of Monmouth, was Governor of Rhode Island, 1685-90, and died 1694, at an advanced age. Before settling in Rhode Island he had been a victim or Puritan persecution in Massachu- setts. His history and the genealogy of his descendants have been quite well preserved.
Robert Carr was of Newport, R. I., and brother of Caleb, who was Governor, 1625. These two were proba- bly the Robert Carr, aged 21, and the Caleb, aged 11 years, who came to America in the ship Elizabeth and Ann, 1635. They are both named as freemen at New- port, 1655, and Robert is named there, 1687. He sold his share of land in Monmonth to Giles Slocum in 1672, who conveyed the same to his son, Capt. John Slocum, who settled in Monmouth.
Thomas Clifton was an original settler of Rehobith, Mass., 1643, and subsequently became a Quaker. On account of being persecuted for his faith he went to Rhode Island, where he lived when he paid for a share
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of land in Monmouth. His daughter, Hope Clifton, was also a victim of Quaker persecution. He was a deputy in the R. I. colonial assembly, 1675.
William Coddington. This is another honored Rhode Island name. He was about the wealthiest of the original settlers of Rhode Island, was Governor, 1668, 1674-6, and died, 1678. His name is one of the most prominent in the early history of that colony. He did come to Monmouth. He had in 1664 a man named George Hulate in his employ, whose name disappears after that date in R. I., and then as the same name ap- pears among original settlers of Monmouth, it may be that George Hulate settled on Governor Coddington's share of land.
Nicholas Davis was one of the twelve patentees, and also paid for a share of land. He was born in England, was a freeman at Barnstable, 1643, became a Quaker, and being subjected to persecution, settled in Rhode Island and was admitted freeman at Newport, 1671. He was drowned in 1672. His widow, Sarah, was in Monmouth for a time.
Thomas Dungan was a prominent Baptist preacher, and in 1678 was a deputy from East Greenwich in the R. I. colonial assembly. It is possible that he visited Monmouth as preacher. In 1684 he left Rhode Island and settled at Cold Run, Bucks County, Pa., where he died, 1688.
Roger Ellis and son are named as paying for shares of land. Roger Ellis was an early settler at Yarmouth, Mass. ; he married Jane Lisham and his son, John, was born December 1, 1648. His name is sometimes given in records of Plymouth colony as Else.
Henry Bull of R. I., was prominent in forwarding the settlement in Monmouth by getting persons to aid in purchasing the land of Indians and inducing settlers to locate there. He was a member of the Rhode Island "company of purchasers," of which Walter Clarke was secretary.
Robert Carr of R. I., paid for a share of land in
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HISTORY OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES.
Monmouth, which he sold to Giles Slocum, who deeded the same to his son, John Slocum, who settled on it.
William Chadwick and Thomas Chadwick settled in Monmouth among original settlers. They are supposed to have come from R. I. The name is so often misspelled as Shaddock and Shattock, that in some cases it is diffi- cult to distinguish the family from that of William Shat- tock, the noted Quaker, who was persecuted in Massa- chusetts, who also came to Monmouth, and about a dozen years later, moved into Burlington County, N. J. He was a Quaker of the primitive stripe and a personal friend of George Fox. His Quaker non-resistent views seriously interfered with his duties as Governor to exert his position to have soldiers enlisted and armed to defend the colonists from the fearful attacks of the Indians in the time of King Philip. In some of the emergencies some subordinate took military matters in hand. While his first act as Governor, in May, 1676, was to issue a commission to Capt. Arthur Fenner as "Chief Com- mander of the King's Garrison at Providence," which was established in view of Indian troubles, which does not appear to be in accordance with Quaker principles, yet William Edmundson, the celebrated Quaker, says in his journal that he could not give his consent to kill and destroy men in the Indian wars at that time. Governor Walter Clarke occupies a very important and memorable page in Rhode Island history. He died in 1714.
THE MONMOUTH PATENT.
THE DATE OF THE SECOND INDIAN PURCHASE WAS APRIL 7, 1665 ; THE FOLLOWING DAY, GOVERNOR NICOLLS GRANTED THE NOTED MONMOUTH PATENT WHICH WAS AS FOLLOWS : "To all whom these presents shall come : I Richard Nicolls Esq., Governor under his Royal Highness the Duke of York of all his Territories in America send greet- ing.
"Whereas there is a certain tract or parcel of land within this government, lying and being near Sandy Point, upon the Main; which said parcel of land hath
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been with my consent and approbation bought by some of the inhabitants of Gravesend upon Long Island of the Sachems (chief proprietors thereof) who before me have acknowledged to have received satisfaction for the same, to the end that the said land may be planted, manured and inhabited, and for divers other good causes and con- siderations, I have thought fit to give, confirm and grant, and by these presents do give confirm and grant unto WILLIAM GOULDING, SAMUEL SPICER, RICHARD GIBBONS, RICHARD STOUT, JAMES GROVER, JOHN BOWN, JOHN TILTON, NATHANIEL SYLVESTER, WILLIAM REAPE, WALTER CLARKE, NICHOLAS DAVIS, OBADIAH HOLMES, patentees, and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns, all that tract and part of the main land, beginning at a certain place commonly called or known by the name of Sandy Point and so running along the bay West North West, till it comes to the mouth of the Raritan River, from thence going along the said river to the westernmost part of the certain marsh land which divides the river into two parts, and from that part to run in a direct south-west line into the woods twelve miles, and thence to turn away south-east and by south, until it falls into the main ocean ; together with all lands, soils, rivers, creeks, har- bors, mines, minerals (Royal mines excepted,) quarries, woods, meadows, pastures, marshes, waters, lakes, fish- ings, hawkings, huntings and fowling, and all other profits, commodities and hereditaments to the said lands and premises belonging and appertaining, with their and every of their appurtenances and of every part and par- cel thereof, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the said lands, hereditaments and premises with their and every of their appurtenances hereby given and granted, or herein before mentioned to be given and granted to the only proper use and behoof of the said patentees and their associates, their heirs, successors and assigns for- ever, upon such terms and conditions as hereafter are ex- pressed, that is to say, that the said patentees and their associates, their heirs or assigns shall within the space of three years, beginning from the day of the date hereof,
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