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These presents may sertefy any one whome it may any wayse consern that John Lynas of Jemaica in the North Rideing of Yorkshire upon Long Iseland doe by these presents bargan sell alienate and make over from mee my heirs or asignes five acres of medow more or les it being the halfe of that ten acre lot of medowe that was formerly Roger Lynases bought of Edward Jissop which ten acres of medow was the halfe of a twenty acre lot of medow that was formerly John Town- sends senior and lyeth in the hither east neck on the easte of John Rodses seniors lot of medow and haveing Thomas Smith senior on the east side of it fronting upon the upland and the reare to the seas as the rest of the lots doe I say that I the aforesaide John Lynas doe by these presents fully freely and absolutely bargan sell and make over all my right title and interest to the medow soe butted and bounded as aforesaide unto Hope Carpentor of the same Towne and shire aforesaide with all such priviledges as shall heareafter apertaine or belong thereunto reserving onely to my selfe the fiftene acres of upland and my share of the little playnes
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that is alredy layde out for him the sayde Hope his heirs or asignes to have and to houlde as his owne proper right forever freely and fully discharged from all former sales gifts grants mortgages or any other incumbranses whatsoever had made or committed in writeing wittingly or willingly done by the aforesaide John Lynas or his order in confermation of the premises I doe this day and date above written set to my hand and fix my seale
JOHN X LYNAS his mark
Signed sealed and delivered in presens of us NATHANIEL DENTON
NATHANIEL DENTON junior
This is a true coppy taken out of the origenall bill of sale per me
NATHANIELL DENTON Clerke.
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This Bill bindeth mee Clement Sallman of Jemaica in the North Rideing of Yorkshier on Long Iseland my hairs executors administrators and asignes to pay or cause to be payde to Edwarde Higbee or his asignes the full and just some of sixtene pound for mater maner speshea and time as followeth
The first payment of foure pound to be payde at or before the first of May next insueing the date hereof to be payed in good merchantable hats eight boyse hats of the midle sort of boyse and four hats for men all good and currant, the second payment likewise to be four pound to be payde the next March follow- ing the first to be payde in corne that is in winter wheate at four shillings six pens per bushell and Rye at three shillings ye bushell and Indean corne at two shillings three pens ye bushell, the third payment to be payde the March next insueing the second which will be one yeare after ye second payment which is to be payde in corne wheate rye and Indean corne at the same prise before mentioned and the fourth and last payment which
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is alsoe four pounds to be payde in March a twelv- month after the third payment all to be payde in corne for manner and prise to the other two payments all which corne before mentioned is to be payde one third of wheate one third of rye and one third of Indean corne all good and merchantable to be payde to Edwarde Higbee or his asignes acordeing to the contents of this sayde bill and farther I Clement Solman doe hereby bind and make over the ten acres of land I purchased by this bill I say I doe bynde over the land aforesayde to Edward Higbee for his securyty for the debt be- fore mentioned in witness whereof I doe here set my hand
January the 2d 1682
Signed sealed and delivered
in the presens of
BENJAMIN COE
RANDOLPH EVANS
CLEMENT SALMON 0
a true coppy taken out of the origenal bill of debt per me
NATHANIELL DENTON Clerke.
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This indenture made the fifth day of July in the thirty third yeare of the reigne of our soveraingne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God King of Eng- land Scotland France and Ireland defender of the faithe &c. and in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hun- dred and eighty one, betwene Abell Gale of Jemaica on Long Iseland in the North Rideing of Yorkshire hus- bandman of the one parte and Fransis Cooley of Flush- ing in Yorkshire aforesaid of the other parte witnesseth that the saide Abell Gale in consideration of a sertaine sume to him in hand payde and delivered by the saide ffrancis Cooly before the ensealing and delivery hereof the reseite whereof the saide Abell Gale doe acknowledge and therewith to bee fully satisfied contented and payde and thereby doe for ever acquit exenerate and discharge the saide ffrancis Cooly his heirs executors administra- tors and assignes have granted barganed alienated sould assigned set over and confirmed unto the said
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Fransis Cooly one sertaine pese of Land it containe- ing by estemation tenn acres more or lesse situate lying and being in the bounds of Jemaica aforesaid bounded by Roberdt Ashmans lot on the easte John Bayly on the west to the ferry path on the south or front on the reare or north to the Hills, with medowe to cut five loades of Hay yearly and every yeare dureing the tearme of five yeares with the priveledges of common belonging to a ten acre lot to have and to houlde the saide land together to him the saide Francis Cooley his Heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes for ever and the saide Abell Gale doth here by covenant grant to and with the saide Francis Cooley his Heirs Execu- tors Administrators and Asignes shall and may after the date hereof and at all times hereafter peaceably and quietly posses occupy and injoy the premises with- out lett hinderanse or molestation by him the saide Abell Galle or any other person claymeing by of or under him or by his privity assent or consent and the saide Abell Gale for himselfe his heirs executors ad- ministrators and Asignes all and singulor the afore- saide barganed premises with the appurtenanses and Page 66
every parte and parsell thereof thereunto belonging unto the saide Fransis Cooley his heirs executors Ad- ministrators and Assignes to theire proper use and be- hoof aforesaide shall and will warrant for ever defend by these presents. In testimony whereof the party above mentioned have hereunto set his hand and seale the day and yeare above mentioned.
Signed sealed and delivered in presence of RUTH BAYLIS ANTHONY GLEANE.
ABELL X GALE 0
his marke
This is a true coppy taken out of the originale bill of sale per me NATHANIELL DENTON Clerke
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Knowe all men whome this may consern that whereas Josep Smith and Joseph Thurston were apointed and imployed as overseors of the estate of Thomas Foster and John Foster I Thomas Foster doe hereby fully and freely acquit and discharge the aforesaide over- seers from all demands conserning the forementioned Estate acknowledging that I have reseived my whole Estate unto my hands to my full satesfaction as wit- nes my hand this 9th of February in the yeare 1683/2 teste
THOMAS FOSTER
NATHANIEL X LYNAS
his marke
RICHARD JONES
This is a true coppy taken out of the originall discharge per me NATHANIELL DENTON
Clerke
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This Indenture made the twenty eight day of Marche in the thirty fifth yeare of his majestis Raigne Anno Domini 1683 betwixt John Baylis of Jemaica in the North Rideing of Yorkshire upon Long Iseland on the parte of Theodoris Polhellmas of Flattbush in the West Rideing of Yorkshire aforesaide on the other parte witneseth that I John Baylis aforesaide hath for himselfe his heirs executors administrators or asignes covenanted barganed and sould and by these presents doth covenant bargaine & sell unto Theadoris Polhelmas aforesaide his heirs executors administrators or asignes a sertaine parsell or lot of upland containeing twenty acres be it more or less lyeing and being in the bounds of Jemaica aforesaide with all the timber trees stand- ing lying and being upon the sayde land together with all and singular the priveledges appurtenances im- munetis or injoyments belonging thereunto to have and to hould for ever and farther I the saide John doe promis and ingage to free the saide land from all former gifts morgages bargans and salles what-ever the saide land is bounded on the north by the lots of Jonas Wood and Jonathan Mills and westwarde by the land that Eldard Luycas bought of mest Barker southwarde
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by the comman and eastewarde by John Baylis land I say I the sayde John Baylis have from me my heirs or asignes soulde this land as aforesaide unto the above mentioned Theadoris his heirs or asignes to have and to houlde firmly by these presents and to warrant this my sale good in Law free from any claime or claimes from any person or persons whatever forraine inva- tions exsepted the saide land being for and in considera- tion of a cowe and calfe and twenty one pounds and ten shillings to be delivered by Theadoris unto John Baylis accordeing to a bill passed by Theadoris to the sayde John beareing date with this bill of sale to the true performance of all and every the above mentioned premises relateing to this covenant I the sayde John Baylis doe binde myselfe as abovesaide by subscribe- ing my name and setting to my seale the day and yeare above written. It is to be understood that the land mentioned in this covenant if it fall short of twenty acres then John Baylis is to make it up but if be above then Theadoris is to have it all.
Signed sealed and JOHN BAYLIS O
delivered in presens of us EDWARDE X LUYCAS his marke This is a true coppy taken out of the originall bill of sale per me
WILLIAM CREED
SAMUELL RUSCOE
NATHANIELL DENTON Clerke
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Knowe all men by these presents that I mest Thomas Barker live ng upon the new lots under the jurisdiction of Flatbush in the West Rideing of Yorkshire upon Long Iseland have barganed soulde and set over unto mest Theodorus Polhellmas living in the Towne of Flatbush in the saide Rideing a parsell of upland con- taineing eleven acres of upland lying within the bounds of Jemaica in the North Rideing of yorkshire above mentioned, of the north the lands of Richard Betts junior on the easte the lands of Eldert Luycas on the south
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the lands of mest William Moris and on the west the hygh way which the sayd land mest Barker bought of mest William Foster of Jemaica soe as the sayde land lyeth in fens with. priveledge to cutt wood to fens the land which eleven acres mest Barker is to make good and if there is more that shall be to the benefit of mest Polhellmas, for which land the saide Polhellmas payde allred upon order of mest Barker in full for the saide. land accordeing to agreement thirty six pounds ten shillings in consideration of which the said mest Barker doth transporte and set over for himselfe his heirs as- signes executors and administrators unto the saide mest Polhelmas his heirs asignes executors and adminis- trators the above mentioned peese of land to have and to hould for ever all free and at liberty without any morgages or charges thereupon lying exsept the Lord his right and forraine invation with all the fenses trees and all what belongs to it-exsept the corne that stands now uppon it which corne doth belong to mest Barker above mentioned. In witness whereof signed in the Towne of Brookland in Yorkshire this 17 day of May 1683
Signed sealed and
delivered in presens
of us . THOMAS LAMBERT
JACOBAS VANDEWATER
THOMAS BARKER 0
This is a true coppy taken out of originall bill of sale per me NATHANIELL DENTON Clercke.
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This Indenture witneseth that I Daniell Whitehead of Jemaica on Long Iseland in the North Rideing of Yorkshire doe sell bargaine grant and make over from mee my heirs executors administrators or assignes for ever to Theadorus Polhemeius of Flatbush in the West Rideing of Yorkshire upon Long Iseland to him and his heirs or asignes forever, Ten acres of upland lying and being in the west bounds of Jemaica above saide bounded on the west side by a lott which the
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aforesaide Theadorus bought of John Bayles and north- ward by Elyas Bayles and bounded eastward by the comman with a parsell of salt medow in the bounds of Jemaica abovesaide lying and being at the haw tree neck bounded westward by the creek eastwarde by the Iseland southward by Thomas Wiggins north- ward by Peter Stringham with the priveledge of foure acres of medow or proportionalle in any other method of devision that the Towne hath or shall order I say I Daniell Whitehead abovesaide do sell give grant and confirme unto the afforesaide Theadorus to have and to howlde for ever freely discharged from all former sales gifts grants dowers leases uses intayles judgments forfeitures Amerciaments and other incumbrances what- soever and from any lawfully claimeing the same except forraign invasion in confirmation of the premises I doe bynde my selfe my heirs or assignes to warrant the sale of the above sd land with the priveledge com- manages and immunities as shall arise from foure acres of medow as abovesaide as witnes my hand and seale this 28th of June in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundered eightie three the word sale over and belonging to the eight line was done before asign- ment
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence. of us
ELDARD X LUYCAS his marke
RICHARD JONES
DANIELL WHITEHEAD 0
This is a true coppy taken out of the originall bill of sale per me NATHANIELL DENTON
Clercke
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June the 23d 1683
Know all men by these presents that I John Denman of Mashpat Kills in the West Rideing of Yorkshire upon Long Iseland doe from me my heirs executors Administrators or Asigns covenant bargaine and sell unto Theadorus Polthellmus of Flatbush in the same Rideing to him his heirs executors administrators or
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asignes the preveledge of five acres of meadow that is from the date hereof whatever shall arise either by rights . of timber feeding upon commans or what rights of com- man lands that shall be hereafter devided ariseing upon or by an alotment of five acres of medow the sayde preveleg that belonged to the five acre lot that was Jonathan Davises I say I the sayde John doe covenant bargan and sell unto the saide Theadorus the saide preveledge of five acres of medow to him and his heirs to have and to houlde for ever and do warrant this my sale good in law free from any claime of any person or persons whatever to the true perforemans of all and every the sayde premises I binde my selfe by setting to my hand and seale the day and yeare above written Teste
SAMUELL RUSCOE
DANIELL WHITEHEAD
JOHN DENMAN O This is a true coppy taken out of the origenall Bill of Sale per me NATHANIELL DENTON Clerck
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These presents witneseth that I Benjamin Coe of . Jemaica haveing formerly sould to my father Roberde Coe my five acres of medow lying on the far easte neck 1 doe by these presents declare to all whome this may any ways consern that I have allsoe sould to my father all the upland that doe or heareafter may belong to the forenamed medow with all other priveledges and apurten- anses I say I have sould it all to my father to injoy or dispose of as his owne without any molestation from mee or mine in witnes of the premises I have heare set my hand
the 10th of May 1676 signed and delivered in presens of us NATHANIELL DENTON sen JOHN X RODES his marke
BENJEMIN COE
This is a true coppy taken out of the originall bill of sale per me
NATHANIELL DENTON
Clerck
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Know all men by these presents that I Freadrick Hendrickson of Jamaica in Queens County on the Island of Nassau Doe own to have received of & from Peter Whitt of the above sd towne Island and County the full of all depts dewes & demands for all Bills Bonds or any other contracts for Money & doe herby exonerate & discharge the sd Peter Whitt his Heirs Executors Ad- ministrators & Assigns of & from any claim or demand for the same as witness my hand & seall this 3d day of June 1701 Teste FREADRICK X HENDRIKS O a true coppy per SAMI RUSCOE Clerk THOMAS OKLEY SAM11 RUSCOE
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Be it knowne unto all men by these presents that I Jonas Wood in the North Rideing of yorkshire on Long Iseland in America have doe and by these presents alyenate sell and make over unto Fransis Coombs of Newtowne on Long Iseland in the West Rideing of the same shire a sertaine parsell of Land situated lying and being in the above sayde North Rideing nominated twenty acres more or less as it was layde out by Good- man Oldfield and Samuell Smith of Jemaica being bounded and joyneing unto the land of Cornelius Verway west- warde fronting northward to the high way that goes from Jemaica to the ferry containeing forty Rods wide and four score Rods long as it was layde out from marke to marke-Know yee that I thee aforesaide Jonas Wood doe freely and absolutely to all intents and purpases make over from mee my heirs executors administrators and asignes as is afore mentioned unto Francis Coombs aforesaide to him his heirs executors administrators or asigns for ever the forementioned peece of Land as his owne proper goods and due right of inheritans with all the timber standing or lying thereupon quyetly to injoy from any person or persons whatsoever a forren invation exsepted that shall lay any claime to it or any parte of
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it by my asent or consent and doe warrant this my deed of sale to bee good free from any former sale or sales morgages or incombrances whatsoever in true per- foremas of the same I have my hand and seale to set this 15th day of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty three
In the presens of
THEOPHILUS PHILLIPS JONAS X WOOD 0 his marke
JEREMIAH BURROUGHS
This is a true coppy taken out of the original Bill of NATHANIELL DENTON Clerck
Sale per me
See in page 506 where ye assignments off this deed is recorded.
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Jemaica the 7th of January Ann 1684/3
These presents may sertefy any one whom it may any wayse conserne that wee George Woolsey senior of Jemaica in the Queens County upon Long Iseland and Thomas Wellin of the same Towne and County have for our selvs our heirs and executors made a full and ab- solute exchange of our medowse which lyeth as is here- after expressed viz George Woolsey's medow lyeth upon the little neck west of the haugh tree necke have- ing that lot of medow which was formarly mest John Pruddens and now is William Creeds upon the north side of it and Nathaniell Lynases upon the south side of it butting upon the Iseland westward and eastwarde upon the crick that runeth betweene that neck and ye haugh tree neck and Thomas Wellins medow lyeth upon the neck commanly called the owld Towne neck lying by the crik side that devideth that neck and the Long Neck the which medow is the halfe of a twenty acre lot that was formerly Abraham Smiths John Rowlisson haveing the other halfe of the sayde lot westwarde or on the west side of the sayde twenty acre lot that wee have fully and absolutely changed the medow aforesaid
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George Woolsey to have and to hould the aforesaide medow lying upon the ould Towne neck as his owne proper right and Thomas Wellin to have and to hould the medow aforesaide upon the little neck west of ye haugh tree neck as his owne proper right for ever eich party ingageing to free the sayde medow soe exchanged from all former gifts grants morgages or any other in- cumbranses whatsoever and that wee have thus ex- changed our meadows aforesaide we do both of us by setting to our hands this day and date above written Teste GEORGE WOOLSEY
NATHANIELL DENTON
JOHN X RODES his marke
THOMAS X WELLIN his marke
George Woolsy sen' & Thomas Wellen above men- tioned doe by a mutuall consent disanull & make void ye above written exchange of medow & each to enjoy there own medow ffully & every part off it as they did possess it before this exchange GEORGE WOOLLSEY
the 27th off June 1687 Witness DANII DENTON HANNAH X DENTON her mark
THOMAS X WELLIN his mark
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We underwritten the constable and overseors with bondsmen on the one partety inhabitants of Jemaica, In behalfe of the inhabitants of the same, have mutually agreed with William Creed on the other party whereas there was a contest betwene the inhabitants of the saide Towne and William Creed conserning the rights belong- ing to seventene acres of medow they have agreed and promised that William Creed shall have sixty acres of upland layde out to him or his asignes within the bounds of Jemaica and fiveteene acres of land layde out to the saide Creed adjoyneing to his land which saide land being
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ye fivetene acres Will Foster layde downe and wee doe confirme to the sayde Creed that hee shall have equal priveledge to his seventene acres of medow for the time to come as any of the inhabitants of the saide Towne shall have, soe all deferanses betwene the Towne of Jemaica and William Creed shall be concluded and ended and the bond of one hundered pound shall be sould and delivered up and for the true performance of the premises wee have set to our hands and fixed our seales this fourth of September in the yeare one thousand sixe hundred eighty three
WILLIAM CREED 0 THOMAS SMITH 0
Signed sealed and
delivered in presens
of RICHARD CORNWELL THOMAS WILLAT
THOMAS HICKS
JOSEPH SMITH 0
SAMUELL SMITH 0
NEHEMIAH SMITH 0 NATHANIELL DENTON Junior 0
NICOLAS EVERIT
0
: This is a true coppy taken out of the originall agree- ment per me NATH DENTON
Clerck
Know all men by this that William Creed of Jamaica in Queens County doath own and acknowledge to have received full & ample satisfaction in all intents & pur- poses for this abov agreement witnes my hand March ye 13 1698/0 (?)
SAML. RUSCOE Clerk WILL CREED
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Knowe all men by these presents that I William Foster of Jemaica in the North Rideing of yorkshire upon Long Iseland have sould unto Thomas Okley a sertaine parsell of medow lying in the bounds of Jemaica upon the easte side of Fosters River in number 24 I say that I the aforesaide William Foster have sould and doe by these presents alienate bargan and sell unto the
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before mentioned Thomas Okley all my right tittle and interest of the aforesaide medow from mee my heirs . executors administrators to him his heirs executors ad- ministrators or asignes to have and to hould forever in witnes hereof I have set to my hand this 25 of Juely 1683 signed in presens
WILLIAM X FOSTER his marke
of us
SAMUELL MILLS
RICHARD EVERIT
This is a true coppy taken out of the originall bill of sale per me NATHANIELL DENTON
Clerck
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Knowe all men by these presents that I Peter String- ham of the Towne of Jemaica in the North Rideing of Yorkeshire on Long Iseland in America doe alyenate bargan and sell and by these presents doe from mee my heirs executors administrators or asignes alyenate bargan and sell unto Ralphe Hunt his heirs executors administra- tors or asignes a sertaine peese or parsell of medow lying and being in the bounds of Jemaica lyeing at the neck commanly called the haugh tree neck lyeing without the fense runing from the haughtree bars to the haugh tree ponds by estemation one acre and a halfe be it more or less I say all the medowe above saide bounded be- twixt the saide fens the pond and the upland as allsoe three acers of priveledge to cum ariseing from this date for devitions of land or cutting timber or feeding on the commans I say I the aforesaide Stringham have as abovesaide sould unto the aforesaide Ralphe Hunt the bovesaide medow and priveledges to have and to houlde for ever and doe warant this my sale free from any former salls gifts morgages or any other intangle- ments and to defend it good in Law free from any clayme or claymes from any person or persons whatsoever forraine invations exsepted to the true performans of all and every the bove mentioned premises I sett to my hand and seale this 17th of Desember 1683.
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Signed sealed and delivered in presens of us SAM RUSCOE MARSEY X RUSCOE her marke
PETER X STRINGHAM O his marke
a true coppy of ye origin- all comparred per me SAMLL. RUSCOE Town Clerke
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Nathaniel Denton senior hath besides his home lot and the ten acres of Land in the easte field that hee tooke upon the acount of an agreement that was made by the first setlers of the Towne of Jemaica will apeare by recorde twenty acres of medow lyeing and being in the necke commanly called the Long Neck lyeing betwene a lot of medow that was formerly Daniell Dentons and a lot of medow that was formerly Rich Everits haveing the creek that devideth that neck from the owlde Towne neck on the west side of it and the upland on the easte side of it and he hath that was layde out to him by the sorvayers sinse the agreement made the 5th of January 1668 20 acres of upland to plant upon haveing Henery Townsends lot on the west side of it and Alexander Smith and Zachariah Mills on the north side and Samuell Davises formerly Fulk Davises lot on the easte side and the bogs on the south side and he hath more 15 acres of Land layde out at the botto or lower end of the neck commanly called the boggy medow neck have the brooke commonly called the spring on the west side and another brooke that runeth on the south side of it and soe runing to the easte and north as the trees are marked X and five acres of land in the west field lying betwene mest George Woolsey and the lot that was Roberdt Ashmans and five acres in the little neck that his sonn Samuell hath haveing Thomas Wigens on the west side Samuell Mesenger on the north side John Smith Rouse on the south side the highway on the easte side and five acres at the little plaine run which his sonn Samuell hath allsoe
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