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Anderson being dated, March 27, 1841, That part of lot No. 1, which lies S. E. of the Plank road, he sold to Edwin J. Brown, who sold a plot in the S. corner to John H. Midmer. That part of the lot which lies between the Plank road and the old Bergen road he mapped, (map filed June 29, 1866) and sold in lots to several people among whom are Michael Smith, Robert Drake, James Fleming, Matthew Arm- strong and John Cadmus. His sisters partitioned lots 3 and 4, report confirmed, Dec. Term, 1841; Lot 3 in annexed sketch was divided into two parts, the N .= 19 acres fell to Mary, the S .= 22 88-100 aeres fell to Catherine ; Lot 4 fell to Susan, except 22-100 of an aere in the S. E. corner, which fell to Catherine. Catherine sold the E. end of her lot to Noah D. and Thomas Taylor in 1868.
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SEVERIN LAURENS.
West Seven Chains and Eighty Eight Links being the Southerly Corner and Place of Beginning of the immediate foregoing Patent) And from said Stake runs North twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West Sixty eight Chains and Sixty four Links to a Stake, Thence South Sixty two Degrees and thirty Minutes West eighteen Chains and fifty Six Links to a Stake standing below the Bank on New Ark Bay; Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East Seventy one Chains and forty five Links to a stake on the Bank of said Hudson's River or York Bay ; Thence up along said River or Bay Northeastward to the Place of Beginning.
The Patent of Philip Carteret to Severin Laurens dated the twelfth Day of May One thousand Six hundred and sixty eight for a Piece of Land at Mingackqua formerly granted by a Dutch Patent to Jan Cornelison Buys.
Our Suruty whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which on the Map is mark'd No. 21.) *
Beginning at a Mulberry Tree standing on the Edge of a High Bank on the Northwest Side of Hudson's River or York Bay (being the eastermost Corner of the immediate subsequent Patent of Hendrick *15 Jansen Spier) And from said * Tree runs North twenty seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West fifty four Chains and Fifty Links to a stake ; Thence North Sixty two Degrees and Thirty Minutes East twelve Chains and twenty five Links to a Stake, Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and Thirty Minutes East fifty one Chains and twenty Eight Links to said Hudson's River or York Bay ; Then along said River or Bay Southwest- erly to the Place of Beginning.
The Patent of Philip Carteret to Hendrick Jansen Speir dated the twelfth Day of May one thousand Six hundred and sixty eight for a Piece of Land lying at Mingackqua.
This tract was originally granted to Jan Cornelissen Buys .- Land Papers (Albang), H. II. 20. Buys, known as "Jan the Soldier," vide Note to Jacobse's Patent, p. 46, probably sold it to Severyn Laurensen, who seems to have been a way- ward fellow. He was a lance-corporal in the service of the West India Company. His views upon meum et tuum were not accurate, hence he was, April 12, 1658, sen- tenced to be stripped of his arms and publicly flogged and branded for theft. Await- ing execution, he was put in jail in charge of Corporal Simon Wautersen, but escaped. This caused the degradation of Simon to the ranks. Laurensen was re-arrested, but pardoned, May 12, 1658, with permission to live on Long Island. He then opened a tap-room, sold liquor "during divine service," for which he was prosecuted, May 11, 1662; and afterwards fined for permitting persons to play nine-pins in his place on Sunday. He was twice married, the last time to Grietje Hendricks, Aug. 5, 1671. He sold the tract in question to Hendrick Jansen Spier, who died seized, leaving his widow, Madeline Hanse (who married Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt, Dec. 10, 1681), and Jan, Hans, and Barent. To pay off the debts of Spier, the above-named parties sold this tract to Gerrit Gerritse (Van Wagenen, jr.,), April 10, 1694. This grantee gave it to his son Jacob. Vide Note to Gerritse's Patent, p. 58, and Note to Spier's Patent, p. 15. It now forms the N. part of Curries estate.
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DIRCK SYCAN.
Our Survey whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which on the map is mark'd No. 22) .*
Beginning at the Westermost Point of a large Rock in the Water at the Eastermost Side of the Mouth of a small Creek and thence runs through a Piece of salt Meadow up into the Woods North twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West forty three Chains and twelve Links to a Stake; Thence North Sixty two Degrees & thirty Minutes East Sixteen Chains and fifty five Links to a small Cedar Tree mark'd I. S. Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East thirty Seven Chains to a Mulberry Tree (being the southerly Corner of the im- mediate foregoing Patent of Jan Cornelison Buys) Thence continuing same course to Hudson's River or York Bay, and thence Southwesterly along said River of Bay to the Place of Beginning.
The second Patent of Philip Carteret to Dirck Sycan dated the twelfth Day of May One thousand Six hundred & sixty Eight for two Parcels of Land lying at Pembrepogh. Our Surbep whereof shews and we adjudge them to be two Tracts.
The First whereof (mark'd on the Map No. 23).+
* This patentee, with his wife and two children, arrived in New Amsterdam in the ship Faith, Dec., 1659.
This tract was originally granted to Jan Lubbertsen, Dec. 5, 1654. Land Papers ( Albany), H. H., 30. He probably sold it to the Patentee Spier. The Patent describes it in size 80x187} rods = 25 morgens, same as in the Dutch grant. This and the lot of Common land No. 28) allotted to the Patent now belongs to the estate of James Currie, dec'd. It remained in the patentee's family until May 1, 1768, when they sold it and lot No. 289 to Jacob Van Wagenen, by the following description : "The home lot, bounded N. W. by Newark Bay, N. E. by Jacob G. Van Wagenen, S. E. by Hudson's River, S. W. by the widow Van Winkel," = 100 acres. Van Wagenen died, Jan. 28, 1783, without issue. His will was dated Dec. 19, 1782, proved March 24, 1785. He named as executors, Effie his widow, Garret Vreeland his brother-in-law, Jacob Van Wagenen his nephew, and Guilliam Out- water. Jacob Van Wagenen, the surviving executor, sold to Robert Thomson the above described tract, together with the adjoining Patent, to Severin Lawrence, May 6, 1824. Thomson died seized, Dec. 14, 1841. By will dated Sept. 15, 1811, proved Jan. 5, 1842, he gave the land so purchased to his nephew, James Currie, who died seized, Feb. 3, 1870.
Jacob Van Wagenen sold to his grandson, Cornelius Van Buskirk, son of his daughter Beelitje, Dec. 10, 1774, three acres near the Bockie (on the point at Fiddler's Elbow), which he sold to Paul Salter, and by him sold to James Currie, and so again joined to the Spier Patent. By the same deed, Van Buskirk also received a lot one chain and 25 links wide out of the S. W. corner of the Patent, extending from the Plank road W. to Newark Bay, now owned by the estate of Michael Cadmus ; also a five-acre lot, bounded S. by Henry Fielding, W. by Newark Bay, N. by Van Wagenen, E. by the old road. One acre of this last tract he sold to Michael G. Vreeland, July 1, 1312. He died seized of the 4 acres, March 2, 1814.
By his will, dated July 10, 1793, proved May 14, 1814, he gave all his property to his wife Antje. The strip, one chain and 25 links in width, she sold to Col. Jasper Cadmus, Dec. 29, 1821.
t Lot No. 23 was 40x375 rods = 25 morgens. It was granted to Gerrit Pietersen, Dec. 5, 1654. Land Papers (Albany), H. H., 33.
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DIRCK SYCAN.
Begins at the westermost Point of a large Rock in the Water at the Eastermost Side of the Mouth of a small Creek (being the Souther- most Corner and Place of Beginning of the immediate preceeding Patent of Hendrick Jansen Spier) And from thence runs North twenty Seven
Lot No. 24 was of the same size. It was granted to Jan Cornelissen, the shoe- maker, Dec. 5, 1654. Land Papers (Albany), H. H., 32. These two patentees sold to Claas Jansen Van Purmerent, Aug. 20, 1655, and he to Dirck Sycan, Sept. 18, 1658. Sycan's wife, Jannetje Tonis, died in 1659, leaving two children, viz. : Jan, aged six years, and Tennis, aged two years. When Sycan was about to marry again, lie agreed with the Orphan's Court in New Amsterdam that, when these children be- came of age, they should each receive 400 guilders and jointly this tract at Pemmer- poock. As security he pledged his house in New Amsterdam, where Harman Smeeman formerly resided. Orphan's Court, New Amst., 90. Yet he and his second wife, Geertje Jansen, sold it to William Douglas, May 31, 1671, for " one negro boy by name Emanuel."
Lot No. 25 (first Patent to Thomas Davison) was granted to Jan Gerritsen Van Imme, Dec 5, 1654 .- Land Papers (Albany), H. H., 31.
By him it was sold to the deacons of the Church in N. Y., and by them to Thomas Davison (Tames Davitson), July 14, 1665 ; by him to William Douglas, May 10, 1671. Douglas, being now the owner of the two lots in the Patent to Sycan and Davison's first Patent = 75 morgens, sold the same to Cornelis Michielse Vreeland, March 7, 1696, for £600. He received from the Proprietors, April 27, 1696, a confirmatory deed for the same, said to contain 150 acres, bounded N. by Jan Artse Van der Bilt, George Cad mus x 27.43 W 72 E. by Hudson's River, S. by Paul Douwesse, Michael Vreeland 75 Ap. 28 W. by Newark Bay. By will, dated Oct. Joanna Van Winkle -Bay. 85 Acı 95 ~12, 1713, Vreeland gave his lands to his N 25 42 W 65 70 to Con children, viz .: Fitje, -. wife of Lawrence Van Buskirk; Metje, wife of Rynier Van Giesen Aagtje, wife of Roelof Van Houte ; Johanna, wife of Daniel Van Winkle, and Michael. These agreed, Sept. 6, 1723, to sell the same to the highest bidder among themselves. It was bought, Nov. 29, 1723, by Michael Vreeland and Daniel Van Winkle, for £1,000.
Daniel Van Winkle died, Jan. 10, 1757. His widow and her brother Michael par- titioned, Aug. 20, 1768. Johanna took the N. E. part, next to Van Wagenen's = 85 95-100 acres. Michael took the S. W. part = 75 28-100 acres, lying between his sister's and Joris Cadmus' (now Richard's) line. Michael took also about two acres on the N. Y. Bay shore at the Bockie. The sketch here inserted shows the lines of division. The map from which it is taken was made by Jonathan Hampton and Ephraim Terril of Elizabethtown, Aug. 1, 1768. By Daniel Van Winkle's will, dated June 3, 1751, his wife, Johanna, received this property for life. Then it went to her daughter Antje, wife of Henry Fielding. She sold, June 18, 1785, to Egbert Post a lot = 32 acres, 1 rood, 20 perches, lying W. of the pres- ent plank road, and including all her land there. She sold to Michael Vreeland, June 18, 1785, one acre on N. Y. Bay, at or near where Gunther's house now is. She sold, March 27, 1787, to Michael Vreeland, all the rest of her land lying E. of the plank road. Michael now owned all the land E. of the plank road, from Cadmus' line to
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DIRCK SYCAN.
Degrees and thirty Minutes West seventy Chains and thirty one Links to a stake standing by the Edge of New Ark Bay Then along said New Ark Bay South thirty one Degrees and thirty Minutes West nine Chains and Seventy Links to a Stake standing on the Bank by the Edge of said New Ark Bay ; Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East Sixty nine Chains and Sixty five Links to a small Heap of Stones by the Side of York Bay (from which said Heap of Stones the Easterly Corner * of Henry Fielding's Stone Kitchin is distant one Chain and *16 twenty Links on a Course south fifty three Degrees and ten Minutes West) and from said Heap of Stones running Northerly along said York Bay as the same runs to the Place of Beginning.
Currie's line, and the S. W. half of the farm W. of the plank road. By his will, dated July 16, 1802, proved Jan. 26, 1805, he gave all this land to his sons George and John. They partitioned. John taking the S. half, lying between Cadmus' line and Salter's lane. George taking from Salter's lane to Currie's line. They also partitioned the lot W. of the plank road. John held his half in tail ; and died July, 1830, without issue, when the remainder vested in the heirs of George, who was dead. These heirs con- veyed this land to Paul and David Salter, June 15, 1832. Paul quit-claimed to David, Nov. 16, 1835. George, by will, dated Nov. 6, 1322, proved Aug. 9, 1824, directed that his land E. of the plank road should be divided into four equal parts. 52d street (before right angling) became the division line N. E. and S. W. His son Michael received the W. quarter, also the S. half of the lot W. of the plank road. Hartman received the N. quarter, also the N. half of the lot W. of the plauk road. Garret received the S. quarter, also three acres of salt meadow near the Bockie, now owned by John Post. Garret died seized, Feb. 10, 1852, and his quarter was partitioned
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among his children, as per annexed sketch. John received the E. quarter, excepting the three acres of salt meadow. Hartman bought the E. and W. quarters, March, 1836. The land W. of the plank road, belonging to Egbert Post, was by him sold, Dec. 15, 1821, to Jasper Cadmus, excepting one acre wbich he gave to his daughter, the wife of Merseles Waters, where the mansion house lately stood. Cadmus sold the S. portion to Hartman Vreeland. By will, dated April 23, 1864, proved Feb. 17, 1868, Hartman gave to his adopted son, Hartman Vreeland, all his land between N. Y. Bay and the back road. The N. part, = 21 47 100 acres, Cadmus sold to William C. Vreeland, Sept. 17, 1836, who sold to Andrew Clerk, May 1 1854, who sold to the Hudson County Land Improvement Company, June, 1, 1867.
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THOMAS DAVISON.
The second Tratt (mark'd on the Map No. 24).
Begins at a small Heap of Stones (which said Heap of Stones is distant from the easterly Corner of Henry Fielding's Stone Kitchin One Chain and twenty Links on a Course North fifty-three Degrees and ten Minutes East, and is the Southerly Corner of the last mentioned Lot) And from said Heap of Stones Runs North twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West Sixty nine Chains and sixty five Links to a Stake standing on the Bank of New Ark Bay ; Thence South forty Six Degrees and twenty Minutes West Eight Chains and sixty Links along the Edge of said Bay to a Stake standing in a small Gully ; Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East Seventy two Chains and twenty one Links to a Stake standing on the side of York Bay; Then North- easterly along said York Bay as the same runs to the Place of Beginning.
The first Patent of Phillip Carteret to Thomas Davison dated the twenty second Day of December One thousand Six hundred & sixty- nine for a Parcel of Land lying at Pembrepogh.
Our Survey whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which is mark'd on the Map No. 25) .*
Beginning at a Stake Standing on the side of York Bay (which Stake is the Southerly Corner of the Second Tract of the last recited Patent of Dirck Sycan) and from said stake runs North twenty seven Degrees and Thirty Minutes West seventy two Chains and twenty one Links to a stake standing in a small Gully by the Edge of New Ark Bay ; Thence down along said Bay South thirty six Degrees and forty five Minutes West nine Chains and eighteen Links to a Stake standing between a Black Beech & a white Oak Bush on the Bank of said Bay; Then South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East seventy two Chains and twenty Seven Links to a Rock mark'd C/V at the Edge of New York Bay ; Thence Northeasterly along said York Bay as the same runs to the Place of Beginning.
The second Datent of Philip Carteret to Thomas Davison dated the twelfth Day of December One thousand Six hun- dred and sixty nine for a parcell of Land lying at Pembre- pogh.
Our Survey whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which on the Map is mark'd No. 26).t
* Davison was an Englishman. In 1661 he purchased a sloop, and with a negro slave to assist him, did a freighting business between New Amsterdam and Albany. He lived in N. Y., and died in 1688. Vide Note to Sycan's Patent, p. 15.
t This traet was first given to Jan Cornelisen Crynnen, Dec. 5, 1654. Its only description was, as was the description of each Patent in this vicinity, "between Gemoenepaen and Kil von Kol." Crynnen sold it to Isaac DeForest, who received a Patent for it, April 17, 1664. The size was 40 x 375 rods. He sold it to Thomas Davison, of New York, April 15, 1665. Davison sold to Sjoert Olphertz, of Hoo- boocken, Feb. 11, 1670, a strip 20 rods wide out of the S. W. side of the tract, which Olphertz sold to Cornelis Steenwyck, July 29, 1681, and by him to Bartel Claesen, Oct. 5, 1681, and by Bartel Jacobs to Rutgert Van Horne, March, 1702. Vide Note to Slott's Patent, p. 17. The N. E. half of the tract Davison sold to Jan
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PETER JANSEN SLAAT.
* Beginning at a Rock mark'd G/V on the West Side of York Bay (being the Southerly Corner of the immediate preceeding Patent ) and from said Rock runs North twenty Seven Degrees and Thirty Min- utes West Seventy two Chains and twenty seven Links to a Stake stand- ing between a black Beach and a white Oak Bush on the Bank of New Ark Bay, Then down along the Edge of said Bay South forty two De- grees and thirty Minutes West Eight Chains and seventy six Links to a stake in a Gully; Thence South twenty seven Degrees and thirty Min- utes East seventy one Chains and fifty Eight Links to a stake by the Edge of York Bay; Thence Northeasterly along said York Bay as it runs to the Place of Beginning.
The Patent of Petrus Stuyvesant to Peter Jansen Slaat dated the fifth Day of December One thousand Six hundred and fifty four confirm'd by Patent from Philip Carteret to said Slaat dated the twelfth Day of May one thousand six hundred and sixty Eight, for a parcel of Land lying at Pem- brepogh.
Our Survey whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which on the Map is mark'd No. 27) .*
Loosdregh, of Communipaw, May 6, 1670, who sold to Simon Jansen Romeyn, at- torney of Poulesse Cornelisen, formerly of Pembrepock, Dec. 14, 1680, who sold to Jan Van der Lynden five morgens, May 31, 1681, who sold to Cornelis Steenwyck, July 29, 1681. Romeyn sold the balance of his purchase to Poules Douwesse, ot Pembrepock, Dec. 6, 1682, who sold to Rutgert Van Horne, March 18, 1702. The history of this tract henceforth is connected with that of the next Patent.
" This tract was first granted to Gysbert Lubbertse, Dec. 5, 1654. Land Papers (Albany), H. H., 36, and not to Peter Jansen Slott as mentioned in the text. It may have been granted to Lubbertse by mistake, for on the original Patent which I have seen was endorsed, "This Patent must be in the name of Pieter Jansen Slott, by mee, Guysbert Lubbertse, May 14, 1657." By both it was treated as if made to Slott. The tract was 40x375 rods. Slott sold it to Joost Van der Linden, Jan. 30, 1671. Van der Linden's heirs, viz. : his children, Jan, Roelof, Jannetje, Hendrickje, and sons- in-law, Albert Zabbristke, and Laurens Laurens sold it to Cornelis Steenwyck, July 29, 1681. On the same day Jan Van der Linden sold to Steenwyck the five morgens belonging to the preceding Patent, bought of Romeyn, May 31, 1681, also a piece of meadow lying between Constable's Hook and Bergen Point, bought by him of Samuel Edsall. Vide Map in Note to Lot 418, p. 155 ; also a house built by him on the land sold by Sjoert Olphertz to Steenwyck. Steenwyck sold this land and meadow and part of the preceding Patent bought of Olphertz to Bartel Claesen, of Midde- wout, L. I., Oct. 5, 1681, for 5,000 guilders of wampum, "in good and clean Long Island wheat or other winter wheat to be grown hereabout," deed to be given on date of first payment, Dec. 1682. It is probable that Claesen sold to Bartel Jacobs, the son-in-law of William Douglas, who sold, March 1702, to Rutgert Van Horne, a cordwainer, the land in Slott's Patent, also the five morgens of the preceding Patent, also the piece of meadow between Constable's Hook and Bergen Point, also the ten morgens formerly belonging to Olphertz.
It is probable that Van Horne was attracted hither from Hackensack by the widow of Jan Van der Linden, whom he married, April 25, 1697. When he pur- chased the whole of Davison's 2d Patent I do not know, but it was probably in 1702. He purchased the Van Schalckwyck Patent, in 1735. Vide Note to Van Schalckwyck's
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HENDRICK JANSEN VAN SCHALCKWYCK.
Beginning at a Stake by the Edge of York Bay (being the Southerly Corner of the last recited Patent) and from said stake runs North twenty seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West Seventy one Chains and fifty Eight Links to a Stake standing in a Gully at the Edge of New Ark Bay ; Thence along the Edge of said Bay South thirty six Degrees West ten Chains and twenty Links to a Stake; Thence South twenty seven De- grees and thirty Minutes East Sixty five Chains and fifty Eight Links to a Stake standing by the Edge of York Bay, Thence Northeasterly along said York Bay as it runs to the Place of Beginning.
The Patent of Petrus Stuyvesant to Hendrick Jansen Van Schalckwyck dated the fifth Day of December one thousand six hundred and fifty four, confirm'd by Patent from Philip Carteret to Hessel Veygerse dated the thirtieth Day of March One thousand Six hundred and Seventy five, for a Parcel of Land lying at Pembrepogh.
Our Survey whereof shews and we adjudge it to be a Tract (which on the Map is mark'd No. 28) .*
Patent, p. 17. He sold to his son-in-law, Dederick Cadmus, Nov. 17, 1740, a lot 32x 375 rods, bounded S. W. by Jacob Barentzen Van Horne, N. E. by land of grantor. This strip extended from bay to bay, and was within Van Schalckwyck's Patent. By will dated June 13, 1740, he gave to his daughter Jannetje, wife of said Cadmus, all his farm at Pamrepogh. In this farm was included all of the land in Davison's 2d Patent, and the Slott and Van Schalckwyck Patents, except what he had sold to said Cadmus. Cadmus had one son Joris or George, and two daughters. George received from his mother, by deed dated July 20, 1747, the lands bought from and devised by his grandfather Van Horne. It must have been to clear up some doubt that he received a deed from his uncle, John Van Horne, July 19, 1747, for a strip across the neck 40x375 rods (Van Schalckwyck's Patent), and also a piece of meadow (in Constable's Hook Patent), reserving, however, the right to the common lands which had been given to him by his father, by deed, dated Aug. 12, 1738.
This explains why the common land allotted to Van Schalckwyck's Patent was adjudged to Van Horne when he did not own the Patent. The allotments to these three Patents were likely to cause trouble between Van Horne and Cadmus. By an agreement in writing between them, dated Feb. 9, 1765, they bound themselves in effect to accept the allotments adjudged to each, and so avoided legal controversy.
By will dated June 27, 1779, proved April 14, 1786, George Cadmus gave all his lands at Pembrepock and Bergen Point to his sons Dirck or Richard, and Caspar or Jasper. Richard was a bachelor and sold to his brother Jasper March 12, 1819, all his interest in this tract. Jasper Cadmus, by will dated May 26, 1824, unproved, gave to his son Richard the S. W. half of his tract, and to his son Andrew the N. E. half. But Andrew dying before his father the devise was changed, so that Richard received the N. E. half, and still owns it The S. E. half was given to the sons of Andrew in tail.
* The original Patent calls for 40x375 rods=25 morgens, Land Papers (Albany), HI. H., 37, while the confirmatory Patent calls for 20 morgens ; lying N. of Cornelis Abrahamsen and S. of Joost Van der Linden. Viggertse (Vygerse or Wiggersen) conveyed the same to his "friend Douwe Ankins of Schenectady Sept. 16, 1696. (This man arrived in this country in the Sloop, Stetin, Sept. 1663.) It was a gift ; "Provided always in case the sayd Hessel Wiggersen should happen during his nat_ urall Life to want naturall Sustenance, that then the said Douwe Aukins doth oblige
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CATHARINE WALLINGEN VAN HORNE.
Beginning at a Stake standing by the edge of York Bay (being the Southerly Corner of the last recited Patent) And from said Stake runs North twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes West Sixty five Chains and fifty Eight Links to a Stake standing by the Edge of New Ark Bay ; Thence South thirty * two Degrees and twenty Minutes West, Ten Chains and twenty Links along the Edge of said Bay to a Stake between two Cedar Bushes (the Southermost of which is mark'd C) Thence South twenty Seven Degrees and thirty Minutes East Sixty four Chains and Seventy Eight Links to a Stake by the Edge of York Bay; Then North- easterly along said York Bay as it runs to the Place of Beginning.
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