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baring date ye twenty eight day of June one thousand six hundred eightty & six together with all singular ye preveledges heredittaments & appurtenances unto ye said land & meadow & premesess belonging or in any wise appertaining & ye reversions rents issues and & profits of ye same & every part thereof to have and to hold all & singular ye premeses before in and by these presents granted & conveyed with every their appurten- ances unto ye sd Hendrick Brass his heirs & assigns to his & their only proper use benefitt & behoofe forever & ye sd Petter Hendrickson Brass & Cattrine his wife for themselves their heirs execs & admins doth covenant prom- Page 225
ise grant & agree to and with ye said Hendrick Brass his heirs & assigns as followeth that is to say that they ye said Petter Hendrickson & Cartrine hath in themselves at ye time of ye sealing & delivery of these presents good right full power & absolute authority to grant & sell ye premeses above mentioned in maner & form as afore said and that ye same & every part thereof shall for ever hereafter remaine & continey unto ye said Hendrick Brass his heirs and assigns as a good perfect & indefeazable estate of inheritance in fee simple & lastly that ye sd Petter Hendrick Brass and Catrine his wife their heirs execs & admintes ye above granted land & meadow & premeses unto ye sd Hendrick Brass his heirs & assigns against all people whatsoever lawfully claiming ye same or any part thereof shall & will warrant & forever by these presents defend in wittness whereof the said Petter Hendrick Brass & Catrine his wife hath hereunto sett their hands and sales the day and year first above written Sealed & delivered PETTER X HENDRICK BRASS 0 his mark
in presents of
JONATHAN FFISH CATTRINE X BRASS 0 JOHN GALE her mark
Queens County Jamaica February ye 9th day 1718/19 Then appeared before John Hunt Esqur one of His Maigtes Justess of ye peace for sd County. ye within
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named Petter Hendrick Brass & Cattrine his wife and did acknowledge ye within instruement of conveyaince to be their and each of their free and vollintary act and deed-
JOHN HUNTT
Jamaica Desember ye sixteen d 1720
A true coppy of ye origginall deed entred & compared by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Cler-
This Indenture made ye twenty sixth day of August in ye year of our Lord & Saviourr Christ Jesus seventeen hundred & twenty & in ye seventh year of ye reigne of Soveraigne Lord Gorge by ye grace of God of Great Brittain Ffrance & Irland King Defender of ye Faith &c. betwen Thedoris Pohannas of Jamaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island in ye Colloney of New York yeoman of the one part & his son Johanas Polhemas of ye same place cordwinder of ye other part wittnesseth that ye said Theodorus Pohemas for & in consideration of ye sum seven hundred pounds corrant money of said Colloney well & truely by ye said Johannas Pohemas to him ye said Thedoras Polheamas in hand paid before ye Page 226
ensealing and delivery of these presents ye receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge & himselfe therewith to be fully & intirely satisfied contented & paid & thereof and therefrom every part & parsell thereof doth fully freely clearly & absolutly acquitt exonerate release and dis- charge ye said Johanas Polhemas his heirs executors and administrators and every of them by these presents hath granted bargained sold conveyed enfeofed released as- shured & confirmed & hereby doth grant bargaine sell convey enfeof release asshure and confirm unto ye said Johanas Polhemas his heirs & assigns for ever all that a certain message or tennement dewlling house out houses barn orchards gardens well & tract or parsell of land scituate lying & being within the limmitts of Jamaica above said at a place called and known by ye name of New Jamaica ye same begins at ye conner of Eldert
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Lucases land next to ye rood that lyes betwen Jamaica & Fflatbush & runs thence eastward along said land to another corner thereof then againe northward to ye main rood which leads to ye fery then along ye said rood eastward to ye northwest corner of Garritt Classons land then along ye same south ward to another corner thereof then eastward along ye same about forty nine roods to ye land now also conveyed to Abraham Pol- hemas and then along ye same about south three degrees & fiftteen minuites east one hundred eleven & a quatter rods to ye other land of said Eldert Lucases then west- ward along ye same to ye northwest conner thereof & again south by east about eighty four rods to a white oak tree at ye south west corner of ye said Elderd land then westward to ye said road betwen Jamaica & Fflatt- bush & then north along said road to ye place first begun containing within ye said limmitts one hundred & tenn aceres more or less with ye moity or equall halffe of that tract of land lying & being in ye limmitts of Newtown containing in ye whole by estimation six aceres be ye same more or less & is bounded north by Cornelious Wyckhoff by ye south road south by Peter Lott & west by Thomas Doxcy with allso ye one moity or equall halff of all ye meadow both salt & fresh att present be- longing to him ye said Theodoras Polhemas within ye limmitts & bounds of Jamaica afore said together with all & singular ye rights priviledges commodities advant- ages hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to ye Page 227
sd messuage or tennement tracts or parsells of lands meadow & other ye premises belonging or properly ap- pertaining & ye reversion reversions remainders & re- mainders rents issues and proffitts of ye same & of every part parcell & member thereof to have & to hold all and singular ye premises before in & by these presents granted & conveyed with their each & every of their appurtenances unto him ye said Johanas Polheamas his heirs & assigns to his & their only & sole proper use benefit & behoofe forever and ye said Thedorius Polheamas for himselfe
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his heirs execs & admins doth covenant promise grant & agree to & with ye said Johannas Polhemas his heirs & assigns as followeth that is to say that he hath in himselff at the time of ye sealing & delivery of these presents good right full power lawfull & absolute authority to grant bargain & sell ye premises above mentioned in manner & form as afore sd & that ye same & every part . parcell & member thereof shall from henceforth forever hereafter remain abide continue & be unto ye said Johannas Polheamas his heirs & assigns as a good pure perfect & indefeasible estate of inhearitance in fee simple & lastly that he ye sd Thedorus Polhemas his heirs & execs ye herein & hereby before granted messuage or tennement land meadow & other ye premises with every their appurtenance unto ye said Johannas Polhemus his heirs & assigns against all people whatsoever lawfully claiming ye same or any part thereof shall & will warrant & forever by these presents aquitt & defend in wittness whereof ye said Theodorus Polhemas hath hereunto sett his hand and seal ye day & year first above written
Sealed & delivered THEODORAS POLHEMAS 0
in ye presents of JACOB RAMSON
PETTER BERRIEN .
Memorandum that on ye 5 day of Desember Anno- 1720 ye within named Theodoris Polhemas personally appared before me Thedoris Van Wick one of His Majes- ties Justeses of ye Peace assigned & acknowledged ye within written deed to be his reall act on vollintary deed THEODORAS VAN WICK
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To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come Know yee that I Adam Smith of Jamaica in Queens County in ye Colloney of New York yeoman
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for divers good causes and considerations him thereunto moveing hath remised released and forever quitted claimed and by these presents for himselfe and his heirs doth fully clearly and absolutely remise release and forever quitt claime unto John Lamberson of ye same place in ye peaceable possesion and to his heirs and assigns forever all such right esstate title intrest and demand whatsoever as he ye said Adam Smith had or ought to have of in or to a certain lott of land situate lying and being in ye Township of Jamaica westward of ye said town near ye meadows lying in a tract of land which ye said Adam Smith purchassed of John Ockey deseased and it is butted and bounded as followeth viz begining at a white ock tree dry & barked soe runing easterly to a black ock tree marked standing near a fence bounded north by ye land of Adam Smith above said & thence runing southerly near ye fence to a black ock sapling standing by ye fence thence runing westerly to a wannute sapling marked then runing to ye white ock tree first · mentioned and allsoe I Adam Smith doe grant a liberty and alow a suffissient way to ye above bounded land unto John Lamberson & to his heirs & assigns forever from ye parth to have and to hold ye said land which in the whole is seventeen acers measured with ye prim- ises unto ye said John Lamberson & to his heirs and assigns forever soe that neither ye said Adam Smith nor his heirs execs admins nor any other person for him or them or in his or their names or in ye name right or stead of any of them shall or will by any ways or means here- after have claime challenge or demand any essteate right or title of in or ye primises but from all and every action right & demand of in or to the primises they & every of them shall be utterly excluded and barred for ever by these presents and allso ye said Adam Smith and his heirs the said seventeen acors of land & primises with ye ap- purtenances unto ye said John Lamberson & to his heirs & assigns and to his & their proper use benefit & behoofe against their heirs and assigns to his & every of them shall warrant and forever defend by these presents in
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wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seale this tweenty third day of October Annoq Dom 1721 and in ye eight year of His Maigestey reigne Sealed and delivered ADAM SMITH £ 0
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GARRITT X DARLING his mark
NEHEMIAH SMITH
A true coppy of ye origginall release entered by me
NEHEMIAH SMITH-Cler
May ye 14th 1733 Benja Carmans mark is two holes in the of ear
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To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come Know ye that I John Rodes of Jamaica in Queens County in ye Colloney of New York yeoman for divers good causes & considerations him moveing hath remised released and forever quit claimed and by these presents for himselfe and his heirs doth fully clearly & absolutely remise release and forever quitt claime unto Anthony Watters of ye same place in his full and peaceable poses- sion & seazin and to his heirs and assigns forever all such right esstate title intreest and demand whatsoever as he ye said John Rodes had or ought to have of in or to a certain lott of land sittuate and being in the Township of Jamaica eastward of the said Town on the hills lying sixteen bounded west by Eliass Bayles east by land laid out to Mr. Ashman north by Flusshing line south by a . high way that parts the ten acers lotts and the hills lotts which was laid out on ye right of William Fosster deed to have and to hold ye said land and primises unto the said Anthony Watters his heirs and assigns to the only use benefit and behoofe of him his heirs and assigns for- ever so that neither he the said John Rodes nor his heirs execs admins nor any other person for him or them or in his or their names or in the name right stead of any of them shall or will by any way or mean hereafter have
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claime challenge or demand any esteate right or title of in or to ye primises but from all and every action right and demand of in or to the primises they and every of them shall be utterly excluded & barred forever by these presents and allso the said John Rodes & his heirs the said premises with ye appurtenances to ye said Anthony Watters his heirs & assigns to his and their own proper use against their heirs and assigns and every of them shall warrant & forever defend by these presents in wittness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale this twenty first day of Apprill Anno Dom 1715-it is agreed before the signing & saleing that the above lott shall be ten rodds wide at both ends
Sealed and delivered
in presents of SAM BAYLES J. SMITH
JOHN X RODES 0 his mark
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To all people to whome these presents come greeting &c. Know ye that I Samuell Smith of Jamaica in Queens County in ye Province of New York for and in consideration of a certain sum of money paid to me in hand before the ensealing hereof by David Watters of ye said County ye receipt whereof I doe hereby acknowl- edge and my selfe therewith fully satisfied and contented and acquit and discharge the said David Watters his heirs executors admins forever by these presents have given granted bargained sold alinated conveyed and confirmed and by these presents doe freely absolutely give grant bargin sell alinate convey and confirm unto him ye said David his heirs and assigns forever ten acors of upland being a five acors right of meadow lying in the heither east neck to have and to hold the said granted and bargained primises with all the appurtenances prev- elidges and commodities to ye same belonging or in any
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wise appertaining to him the said David his heirs and assigns forever to his and their only proper use benefitt and behoofe forever and I the said Samuell Smith for me my heirs execs admins doe covenant promise and grant to and with the said David his heirs and assigns that before ye ensaleing hereof I am ye true sole and lawfull owner of the above bargained primises and am lawfully seized and posesed of ye same in mine own proper right as a good perfect and absolute esteat of inheritance in fee simple and have in myselfe good right full power and lawfull authority to grant bargain sell convey and confirm sd bargained primises in maner as afore said and that ye said David his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter by force and vertue of these presents lawfully peaceablely and quitly have hold use occupy posess and injoye the said demised and bargained premses with the appurtenances free & clear & freely & clearly acquited exonerateed & discharged of from all maner of former and other givft grants bargain sales leases morgages wills intails joynters dowries judgments executions incumbrances and intents furthermore I ye said Samuell Smith for my selfe my heirs executors adminstrators doe covenant and ingage the above demised premises to him the said David Watters his heirs and asigns against the lawfull claime or demands of any person or persons whatsoever forever hereafter to warrant secure and defend the same in wittness whereof. I have hereunto sett my hand and sale this ninth day of
SAMUELL SMITH 0 Jenewary 1721 Signed saled & delivered in ye presents of us JOHN CARMAN JACAMIAH DENTON
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Queens County memorad that on ye 21d of Jenewary 1721 then came before me Sam. Smith within named and did acknowledge that he executed the within deed freely- THOMAS SMITH Justess of the Peace
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A true coppy of ye orignall deed enterd by me NEHEMIAH SMITH pr Cler-
This Indenture made this tweenty second day of Jenewary in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & tweenty one between Joseph Smith of Jamaica in Queens County yeoman of the one part & David Watters of ye same place yeoman on the other part witt- nesseth that the said Joseph Smith for & in considera- tion of the sum of tweenty shillings to him paid by ye said David Watters before ye ensealing of these presents the receipt of which he doth hereby own & thereof doth acquitt and discharge the said David Watters & his heirs & execs forever hath granted bargained & sold & by these presents doth grant bargaine & sell unto the said David Watters & to his heirs & asigns forever a certain small peice of meadow lying in the heither east neck of the said Township containing about one acor lying on ye east side of a ditch which fences the north part of said neck adjoyning to ye meadow of said David together with the hereditaments thereunto belonging to have & to hold the said small peice of meadow with ye appurten- ances unto ye said David Watters and to his heirs and assigns to his & their only use benefitt & behoof forever and the said Joseph Smith doth hereby for himselfe & his heirs covenant to and with the said David Watters and heirs & assigns that he the said Joseph Smith & his heirs execs & admins the above granted peice of meadow with its appurtenances unto the said David Watters & his heirs & assigns against all lawfull claime of any person or per- sons whatsoever shall warrant & by these presents defend in wittness whereof the said Joseph Smith hath hereunto sett his hand & seale the day & year above first written- Sealed & delivered JOSEPH SMITH 0 in ye presents of WILLIAM LAWRENCE DELORD X LAWRENCE the mark of
J. SMITH
Memorad that on ye within date came before me Joseph Smith & did acknowledge that he exe- · cuted ye within deed freely- THOMAS SMITH-Justes
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A true coppy of ye orrigginall entered by me
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This Indenture made the twelfe day of June & in ye year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and tweenty two and in ye eight year of ye reigne of our soverraigne Lord Gorge over Great Brittain &c. France and Irland King Defender of ye Faith &c. between Gorge Woolcy of Jamaica in Queens County on the Island in ye Colloney of New York yeoman on ye one part & Samuell Ketcham of ye same place yeoman on the other part wittnesseth that ye sd Gorge Woolcy for and in considera- tion of ye sum of ten pounds corrant lawfull money of ye said Province well and truely by Samuell Ketcham to the said Gorge Woolcy in hand paid before the ensealing and delivery of these presents ye receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge and himselfe therewith to be fully and intirely satisfied contented and paid and thereof and therefrom and of and from every thereof he doth by these presents fully clearly & absolutely acquitt exonerate and decharge ye said Samuell Ketcham his heirs execs and admins hath bargained sold conveyed and enfeofed released asshur and confirme unto ye said Samuell Ketcham and to his heirs and assigns forever all that a certain peice or parsell of upland sittuate lying & being in ye bounds of Jamaica afore said butted and bounded as followeth begining at ye south east corner at a whit ock tree thence runing northerly to Fushing bounds to a black sapling marked thence runing westerly bounded by ye land of the above said Samuell Ketcham soe bounded westerly by ye land of said Ketcham and southerly by ye land of said Ketcham to the bounds first mentioned all which land as it is above bounded & exsprest together with all and singular ye rights priviledges commodieties advantages heredittament and appurtenances to ye above mentioned land being seven acors more or less with ye primises belonging or in any maner of ways appertaining & ye reversions and remainders rents & profitts of ye
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same & every part and parsell thereof to have and to hold ye primises in and these presents granted with ye appurtenances unto the said Samuell Ketcham & to his heirs and assigns and to his heirs & only proper use benefitt and behoofe forever and ye said Gorge Woolcy for himselfe his heirs execs admins doe covenant promise Page 233
grant and agree to and with ye said Samuell Ketcham his heirs and assigns as followeth that is to say that he hath in himselfe at ye time of the delivery and sealing of these presents good right full power lawfull & absolute authority to grant bargen and sell ye above said land and primises above mentioned in maner and form afore said and that the same and every part and parsell & member thereof shall from henceforth forever hereafter remaine continue abide and be unto ye said Samuell Ketcham his heirs and assigns as a good pure perfect and indeafeaziable essteate of inhearitance in fee simple freely and clearly acquited released and discharged by ye said Gorge Woolcy his heirs execs admins of and from all incumbrance and intangelment whatever and lastly that he ye said Gorge Woolcy his heirs execs admins ye above granted conveai- ance unto ye said Samuell Ketcham his heirs and assigns against all persons whatsoever lawfully claimeing the same or any part thereof shall and will warrant and forever by these present defend in wittness whereof ye said Gorge Woolcy to these presents have hereunto sett his hand & seale ye day and year first above written- Saled and delivered GORGE WOOLCY O
in ye presents of us
NEHEMIAH SMITH Jun
NEHEMIAH SMITH
That on ye thirteen day of Jenewary Annoq 1722/3 that ye within named Gorge Woolcy came before me one of Maigtese Justess of ye Peace in Queens County and did acknowledge that this within mentioned deed was his free act and deed- THOMAS SMITH
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Know all men by these presents that wee John Car- penter Junior & Benjemain Coe son & heirs of Benje- main Coe late deceased both of Jamaica in Queens County on the Island of Nasaw and Colloney of New York yeoman have made made for us our heirs admins and assingns a firm and absolute exchang of two peices of upland lying & being in ye bounds and limmitts of Jamaica above said that is to say that ye above said John Car- penter doth give grant and by these present in way of exchange make over and confirme unto ye above said Benjemain Coe his heirs and assigns forever a certain peice of upland lying in ye east devision a lott formerly laid out to Nehemiah Smith Sanior bounded north on the lot that was formerly Samuell Denton east by Foster River south by land of ye above said Benjemain Coe & west by ye highway it being twelfe roods on ye east end & twelfe roods & eleven foots on ye west end all the above said land as it is above bounded and exsprest all which I make over unto Benjemain Coe his heirs and assigns forever-And in consideration whereof the above said Benjemain Coe doth likewise give grant and by way of exchange make over and confirm unto ye above said John Carpenter ye above mentioned weath of land at each end lying in the same devision above said and bounded as followeth viz north by ye land of ye above said Benjemain Coe & east by Fosster River & south by the land of ye above John Carpenter and west by the highway all which land as it is above bounded and exsprest I make over unto the above said John Carpenter his heirs & assigns to have and to hold forever and that this is our mutuall agreement wee bind our selfes & each of us our heirs execs admins firmly by these presents as wittness our hands this tweenty ninth day of Apprill Annoq Dom 1723 Signed in the present of JOHN CARPENTER
of NEHEMIAH SMITH Cler BENJAMIN COE
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To all Christian people before whome these presents shall come wittnesseth that where as Benjemain Coe of Jamaica in Queens County in ye Province of New York heir of Benjemain Coe late of Jamaica deseased and Hannah Coe of ye same place which ye wife of Daniell Coe deseased executrix to ye estate of her husband whereas there is severall peices of land each of them there eaquall halfe in ye east devision the lott that was laid out to their father & the lot purchased of Gorge Woolcy which was laid out to John & Joseph Ludlom ye said Benjemain Coe and Hannah Coe hath devided ye above said lands as followeth that is to say the said Benjemain Coe is to have ye one halfe on ye west end and to run ye full breath as apear by a bush and stak for that purpose marked and ye said Hannah Coe for ye heir of ye said Daniell Coe deseased is to have ye east end of said tract and to run the whole breath allso one Lot bought of Benjemain Thuston the sd Benjeman Coe is to have ye halfe on the west end and to rune ye whole breath as will apear by trees for that purpose marked and ye said Hannah Coe or son of Daniell Coe deseased to have the east end runing ye whole breath and alsoe one lot in said devision bought of John Lamberson of said Benjemain Coe has all that lot and ye said Hannah Coe or ye heir of said Daniell Coe deseased hase the old lott commonly called ye mill lott wittneseth their hands and seales this nineteen day of June & in ye ninth year of His Maigties reigne and in ye year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and tweenty three
Sealed and delivered BENJAMIN CCE 0
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ELIZEBETH COE
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SAMLL HIGBEE
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Elderd Lucas west devistion of land lies joining to Bettesis Crick and to ye south west of the rood- that goes along ye south side-Entered by me
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