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of the Hill commonly called Anthony's nose which is likewise the bound of Colonel Stephen Van Courtlandts land on his Manor of Courtlandt and from thence bounded by the said Hudsons river as the said river runs northerly until it comes to the Creek River or run of water called and known by the name of the great fish Kill to the northward and above the said Highlands which is likewise the southward bounds of land belonging to the said Colonel Stephen Van Courtlandt and Company and so easterly along the said Courtlandt's line and the south bounds of Colonel Henry. Beekman until it comes twenty miles or unto the division or partition line be- tween the Colony of Connecticut and the said Province and Easterly by the said division line and being bounded northerly and southerly by east and west lines unto the said division line between the said Colony of Connecticut and the Province afore- said the whole being bounded westward by the said Hudson's river northward by the Land of Colonel Courtlandt and Com- pany and the Land of Colonel Beekman eastward by the parti- tion line between the Colony of Connecticut and the Province of New York and southerly by the Manor of Courtlandt to the Land of the said Colonel Courtlandt including therein a certain Island at the north side of the said High Lands called Pollaples Island with the hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging and granted unto Adolph Philipse Esquire his heirs and assigns forever who shortly after the granting of the said Letters Patent departed this life intestate leaving Frederick Philipse Esquire his Nephew and heir at Law and Whereas the said Frederick Philipse in and by his last will and testament in writing duly executed and at- tested for the devise of Lands of Inheritance and bearing date on or about the sixth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-one devised the aforesaid tract of Land unto his son Philip Philipse his daughter Susannah then the wife of Beverly Robinson his daughters the said Mary Morris by her then name of Mary Philipse and Margaret Philipse in equal shares to them and the heirs of their bodies for ever and if any or either of them should die without issue in such case the quarter part thereby devised to him her or those of them so dying with- out issue should be equally divided among the survivors And Whereas the said Margaret the youngest daughter of the said Frederick Philipse departed this life without having had any
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issue of her body Lawfully begotten whereby the said Philip Philipse Susannah Robinson and Mary Philipse became entitled to the said lands and hereditaments in equal shares And Where- as in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty- three the said Philip Philipse Beverly Robinson and Susannah his wife and Mary Philipse duly suffered a common recovery of the said Land and hereditaments and under the uses of that re- covery became seized of the said tract of land and heredita- ments as Tenants in Common in fee And Whereas by indenture bearing date on or about the seventh day of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four duly acknowl- edged before Joseph Murray then one of his Majesty's Council for the said Province of New York and made or expressed to be made between the said Philip Philipse and Beverly Robin- son and Susannah his wife of the one part and the said Mary Morris by her then name of Mary Philipse of the other part after reciting the said Letters Patent herein before in part re- cited and also reciting that the said parties had by Jonathan Hampton their Surveyor divided the greatest part of the said tract of land and distinguished the same by Lots signed and delivered by Hampton and left with the said Beverly Robinson for the use of himself and the other Parties to the now reciting Indenture and that in order to have an equal division they had according to divers assortments made by the said Jonathan Hampton drawn their several Lots whereupon the Lots No. 3 No. 5 and No. 9 and one third part of the meadow land lying in Lot No. 2 laid down in the Map did then belong to the share of the said Mary Morris then Mary Philipse and were butted and bounded as follows Lot No. 3 Beginning at two hemlock bushes standing in a Gully between Bull and Breakneck hills on the east side of Hudsons river and from thence running north seventy seven degrees East three hundred and eighty six chains to a heap of stones and walnut bush marked P. R. 1753 Standing in the west line of Lot No. 4 and is also the north east corner of Lot No. 2 then North ten degrees East two hundred and twenty eight chains to a heap of stones thirty links north of a white oak tree marked P. 1753 being the north west corner of Lot No. 4 then south eighty seven degrees west four hundred and eighty chains to the mouth of the Fish Kill from thence down the several courses of Hudson's river to the beginning includ- ing Pollaples Island containing about eight thousand six hun-
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dred acres. Lot No. 5 Beginning at a heap of Stones in the line of the Manor Courtlandt at the South East corner of Lot No. 4 then north ten degrees east nine hundred and forty seven chains to a heap of stones at the north east corner of Lot No. 4 then North eighty seven degrees east three hundred and forty four chains to a heap of stones which is the northwest corner of Lot No. 6 then south ten degrees west along the line of Lot No. 6 nine hundred and sixty chains to a heap of stones in the line of the Manor Courtlandt at the South west corner of Lot No. 6 then west along the line of the Manor Courtlandt three hundred and forty chains to the Begin- ning containing about thirty one thousand two hundred acres. Lot No. 9 Beginning at a hemlock tree standing on the south side of the east branch of Croton River and a heap of stones on the north side which is also the south east corner of Lot No. 6 in the line of the Manor Courtlandt from thence running north ten degrees east three hundred and thirty three chains to a heap of stones and a walnut tree marked P. R. 1753 on the south side of the hill near an old Meeting House in the line of Lot No. 6 being the South West corner of Lot No. 8 then east along the line of Lot No. 8 three hundred and thirty seven chains to a chestnut Bush marked P. R. 1753 Standing in the oblong line on the west side of Rocky Hill which is the south east corner of Lot No. 8 then southerly as the oblong line runs three hundred and thirty chains to the north east corner of the Manor of Courtlandt in Peach Pond then west along the said Manor of Courtlandt three hundred and thirty six chains to the beginning containing about eleven thousand two hundred and twenty acres and the one third part of the Meadow Land lying in Lot No. 2 Beginning five chains from the upland upon Danfords Creek and running to Crooked Creek five chains from the upland then down Crooked Creek to the Meadow belonging to Lot No. 7 then north west to Martlers Rock then along the upland the North side of a little Island in the Meadow to the mouth of Danfords Creek then up the said Creek to the begin- ning containing about eighty two acres. It is Witnessed that in consideration of the mutual grant from the said Mary Morris then Philipse to the said Philip Philipse and Susannah Robin- son and their heirs of divers other lands in the said Letters Patent mentioned the said Philip Philipse and Beverly Robin- son and Susannah his wife did grant bargain sell alien release
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and confirm unto the said Mary Morris then Philipse her heirs and assigns all and singular the Lots before described with the appurtenances To hold the same unto and to the use of the said Mary Morris then Philipse her heirs and assigns forever And Whereas by Indenture of lease and release bearing date respectively on or about the twelfth and thirteenth days of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight and made or expressed to be made between the said Mary Mor- ris then Philipse of the first part Major Roger Morris of the second part and Joanna Philipse and the said Beverly Robinson of the third part being the settlement made previous to the marriage then intended to be and afterwards duly solemnized between the said Roger Morris and the said Mary his wife. It is witnessed that for the consideration therein mentioned she the said Mary Morris then Philipse did grant bargain sell release and confirm unto the said Joanna Philipse and Beverly Robin- son and their heirs the aforesaid several lots or parcels of land herein before particularly described and all other the lands and hereditaments of her the said Mary Morris then Philipse To hold the same unto the said Joanna Philipse and Beverly Rob- inson and their heirs to the use of the said Joanna Philipse and Beverly Robinson and their heirs until the solemnization of the said then intended marriage and after the solemnization thereof to the use of the said Mary Philipse and Roger Morris and the survivor of them for and during the term of their natural lives without impeachment of waste Remainder to the use of such child or children as should or might be procreated between them and to his her or their heirs and assigns forever. But in case the said Roger Morris and Mary Philipse should have no child or children begotten between them or that such child or children should happen to die during the life time of the said Roger and Mary and the said Mary Morris then Philipse should survive the said Roger Morris without issue then to the use of the said Mary Morris then Philipse her heirs and assigns for ever. And in case the said Roger Morris should survive the said Mary Morris then Philipse without any issue by her or that such issue should then be dead without leaving issue then after the decease of the said Roger Morris to the use of such person or persons as the said Mary Morris then Philipse should by her last will and testament appoint. And Whereas by Inden- ture bearing date on or about the fourteenth day of April
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in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty one duly acknowledged before one of his Majesty's Council and made or expressed to be made between the said Philip Philipse and Bev- erly Robinson of the one part and the said Roger Morris of the other part after reciting the said herein before in part recited Indenture of the seventh day of February one thousand seven hundred and fifty four and also reciting that by Letters Patent under the great seal of the Province of New York dated the twenty seventh day of March then last therein reciting that the said Philip Philipse Beverly Robinson and Roger Morris by their petition to the Honorable Cadwallader Colden President of New York on or about the twenty sixth day of November then last past did set forth that in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty three a line of division was established be- tween the said Province of New York and the Colony of Con- necticut running parallel and at the equal distance of twenty Miles in all its parts from Hudsons river and that before the actual running of the said line the said in part recited Let- ters Patent had issued to the said Adolph Philipse for all that tract of Land in Dutchess County hereinbefore described and that since the establishment of the said line and grant of the said Letters Patent certain Commissioners had been appointed by the then respective governments of New York and Connec- ticut for running out and marking the said line who finding it impracticable to perform the same exactly agreeable to the said Establishment did actually run and mark out a line as near as could be parallel to the main course of Hudsons River which line was afterwards confirmed that the said line so run not be- ing in all its parts the equal distance of twenty miles from Hud- sons River occasioned by the variation of its course from a straight line the said line as far as it extended along the rear of the said Patent did in some parts exceed and in other parts fall short of that distance notwithstanding which the said Adolph Philipse and those who held under him conceiving that the said line so actually run ought for reasons of public and private utility to be the rear line of the said Patent had always claimed and then claimed by virtue of the same all the lands included within the north and south boundaries of the said Patent as far Eastward from Hudsons River as the said line of division actu- ally run out and marked as aforesaid although some disputes had then lately arisen concerning the eastern bounds of the said
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Patent on pretense that the said tract thereby granted extended to the equal distance of twenty miles from Hudson's river in a similar line to the windings and turnings of the said river ac- cording to which construction a considerable tract would be ex- cluded the said Patent: But even admitting that there was some color for such a construction of the Eastern bounds of the said patent since the actual running and marking out of the said line as would restrict the said petitioners to the distance of twenty miles east of the said river in every part of their rear line which they conceived was not as yet a considerable part of the line granted by the said Letters Patent within that distance did lie to the eastward of the then present line of division and was held and enjoyed by others his Majesty's subjects not claiming under his said Letters Patent upon a supposition that the same were not included in the said patent since the running of the then present line of the division the petitioners in order to re- move all doubts and controversies were willing to surrender and release all their right and title to the same to his Majesty in trust for those of his subjects then holding the same on condition the petitioners obtaining a grant and confirmation of all the lands that might be between the distance of twenty miles from Hudson's river and the said then present line of division and the north and south bounds of the said Patent extended to the said line which would not only quiet the said inhabitants in their respective possessions but also prevent any further controversy respecting the eastern bounds of the said Patent and that as the petitioners were willing to pay the usual' quit rents for the said land lying between the distance of twenty miles from Hudsons river and the then Colony line and the north and south bounds of the said Patent extended to the said line they humbly conceived them- selves equitably entitled to such grant and confirmation in pref- erence to any others who had no title to the same therefor the petitioners prayed his Majesty's Letters Patent confirming to them the said tract of land granted to the said Adolph Philipse and granting and confirming to them all other lands that might lie between the distance of twenty miles from Hudson's river and the said division line and the north and south bounds of the said Patent extended to the said line his Majesty gave granted ratified and confirmed to the said Philip Philipse Bev- erly Robinson and Roger Morris their heirs and assigns forever
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as tenants in common all those two tracts or parcels of land situ- ate lying and being in the County of Dutchess at the distance of twenty miles from Hudson's river between the lands formerly granted to the said Adolph Philipse deceased and the equiva- lent lands surrendered by the Colony of Connecticut to the Province of New York the one of which tracts begin at a monu- ment of a large heap of stones erected in the west bounds of the said equivalent lands thirty eight links north twenty five de- grees west from a large rock having the letters H. B. P. P. and B. R. marked thereon which said monument or heap of stones was erected in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four by the proprietors of the lands formerly granted to Colonel Henry Beekman and of the afore- said lands formerly granted to the said Adolph Philipse for a corner between and division between the said Patents and run- ning from the said monument or heap of stones along the south boundaries of the said Henry Beekman's lands west ninety chains then south fifteen degrees west three hundred and sixty chains then south twenty four degrees east one hundred and sixty chains then south fourteen degrees east fifty nine chains to the said west boundaries of the said equivalent lands then along the said west boundaries five hundred and sixty chains to the place where the said tract began, containing four thou- sand five hundred and four acres and the usual allowances for highways and the other of the said tracts begins at a stake stand- ing in the north boundaries of the Manor of Cortlandt and on the west side of a pond of water called Peach Pond and runs from the said stake along the north boundaries of the said Manor west thirty seven chains thence north forty two degrees east one hundred and thirty six chains to the west boundaries of the aforesaid equivalent lands then along the said west boundaries forty eight chains to the aforesaid Pond and then along the west side of the said Pond to the place where this second tract began containing four hundred and twenty one acres of land and the usual allowance for highways the said two tracts. con- taining together four thousand seven hundred and twenty five acres and the usual allowance for highways and reciting that a part of the lands by the last recited Letters Patent granted was included within the bonnds and limits of Lot 9 before described: It is by the now reciting Indenture of the fourteenth day of April one thousand seven hundred and sixty one witnessed
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that in consideration of mutual grants and releases from the said Roger Morris to the said Philip Philipse and Beverly Robinson and of ten shillings the said Philip Philipse and Bev- erly Robinson did grant bargain sell alien convey release and confirm unto the said Roger Morris his heirs and assigns all such parts of the said lands by the said in part recited Letters Patent of the twenty seventh day of March granted as are in- cluded and comprehended within the boundaries and limits of the said Lot No 9 as herein and therein before described with the appurtenances except all mines and minerals whatsoever. To hold the same unto the said Roger Morris his heirs and as- signs forever and Whereas by an Act of the third session of the Legislature of New York passed on or about the twenty second day of October one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine entitled " An Act for the forfeiture and sale of the estates of persons who have adhered to the enemies of this State and for declaring the Sovereignty of the People of this State in respect to all property within the same" it was enacted that sundry persons therein named and among others the said Roger Morris Beverly Robinson Susannah the wife of the said Beverly Robinson and Mary the wife of the said Roger Morris and each of them should be and they were thereby severally declared to be ipso facto convicted and attainted of adhering to the enemies of the said State and that all and singular the estate both real and personal held and claimed by them severally and respec- tively whether in possession reversion or remainder within the State of New York on the day of passing that act should be and thereby was declared to be forfeited to and vested in the People of the State and Whereas the said Roger Morris de- parted this life in or about the month of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four leaving the said Mary Morris his widow him surviving and which said Mary Mor- ris his widow is still living and Whereas there were five children of the marriage between the said Roger Morris and Mary Morris that is to say the said Joanna the wife of the said Thomas Cowper Hincks Amherst Morris Margaret Morris and the said Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris And Whereas the said Margaret Morris departed this life in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty six an infant of the age of two years or thereabouts and whereas the said Amherst Morris also de- parted this life some time in the year one thousand eight hun-
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dred and two intestate and a batchelor and by the death of the said Amherst Morris and Margaret Morris as aforesaid the said Joanna Hincks Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris became and are now entitled to the said lands and hereditaments hereby released or intended so to be in equal shares And Whereas the interests of the said Joanna Hincks Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris of and in the said lands and heredits are preserved to them by the fifth article of the definitive treaty of Peace between Great Britain and the United States of America bear- ing date on or about the third day of September in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three by which it was de- clared that all persons who had any interest in Confiscated Lands either by debts marriage settlements or otherwise should meet with no lawful impediments in the prosecution of their just rights. And Whereas all the lands and hereditaments mentioned and included in the said recited Letters Patent were not divided between the said Philip Philipse Mary Morris and Susannah Robinson. And Whereas the said John Jacob Astor hath contracted and agreed with the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna Hincks his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris for the absolute purchase of all the Estate right title and interest of them the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris of in to or out of the said lands or hereditaments hereinbefore mentioned and comprised in the said hereinbefore in part recited Indentures of the seventh day of February one thousand seven hundred and fifty four and the thirteenthi day of January one thousand seven hundred and fifty eight and all other their lands and hereditaments in the Dutchess county aforesaid subject to the interest of the said State of New York or their Grantees therein for the life of the said Mary Morris and all other interests or claims conditions or consequences to which the same or any part thereof may can or shall be legally subject by reason or means of the said hereinbefore mentioned act of the Legislature of New York at or for the price or sum of twenty thousand pounds Now this Indenture Witnesseth that in consideration of the said sum of Twenty Thousand Pounds of lawful money current in Great Britain to the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris well and truly paid by the said John Jacob Astor immediately before the exe- cution of these presents in equal shares and proportions the
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receipt of which said sum of twenty thousand pounds they the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris do hereby respectively acknowledge and thereof and of and from the same and every part thereof do and each and every of them doth acquit release and discharge the said John Jacob Astor his heirs executors administrators and assigns and every of them for ever they the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris according to their several and respective shares estates rights and interests but not further or otherwise Have each and every of them hath granted bargained sold aliened released and confirmed and by these presents do and each and every of them Doth grant bar- gain sell alien release and confirm unto the said John Jacob Astor his heirs and assigns in the actual possession of said John Jacob Astor now being by virtue of a bargain and sale thereof made to him by the said Thomas Cowper Hincks and Joanna his wife Maria Morris and Henry Gage Morris in con- sideration of five shillings paid to each of them by the said John Jacob Astor by Indenture bearing date the day next be- fore the day of the date of these presents for one whole year commencing from the day next before the day of the date of the same Indenture of bargain and sale and by force of the statute made for transferring uses into possession all and singular the lands and hereditaments herein before particularly mentioned and described and by the said herein before in part recited Indenture of the seventh day of February one thousand seven hundred and fifty four allotted to the said Mary Morris her heirs and assigns and also all and singular other the Lands and hereditaments comprized in the said herein before in part recited Indenture of the thirteenth day of January one thous- and seven hundred and fifty eight and all other their lands and hereditaments in Dutchess county aforesaid with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances subject Never- theless to the Estate vested in the said government of New York or their grantees for the life of the said Mary Morris and all other interests and claims conditions or consequences to which the same or any part thereof may can or shall be legally subject by reason or means of the said act of the Legislature of New York as aforesaid and all houses cottages outhouses edifices buildings closes of land meadow and pasture woods
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