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said John Carman his heirs & assigns shall & may at all times for ever hereafter have hold occupy posess and injoy the above recited land & primises as his or their own land of inheritance in fee simple fully & clearly discharged of and from all former gifts grants seals mor- gages dowrys intails judgement excecution or extents or any other title or incumbrance whatsoever and allsoe the above said Samuell Mills & Epheraim Mills doth further promis covenantt & agree for themselfes their . heirs exec and admins to & with the said John Carman his heirs & assigns that he had at the ye time of the ensealing & delivery of these presents full power & law-
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full authority for to sell and dissposs of ye same in maner & form as afore said and allsoe will warrant and for ever defend ye same against any person or per- sons laying any just claime to ye same and allso will sale & deliver any other or firmer deed or convaiance for. ye premises as the said John Carman his heirs & assigns shall be advised or procure to be drawn by his or their counsell learned in ye law for space of seven years next ensueing in testemony whereof the partys first above written hath set to hands and affixed their seales ye day & year first above written
Saled and delivered
in ye presents of
NATHAN SMITH
JOANNA X SMITH
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SAMUELL X MILL O
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SUZANAH X MILL 0
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EPHERAIM MILL
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SUSANAH X MILL
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Memorandom that on ye thirty day of July seventeen hundred & eightteen appeared before me David Right one of His Maigtes Justeses for ye keeping of ye peace within Queens County the within named Sam11 Mills & Epheraim Mill and did acknowledge ye within instru- ment to be their own vollintary ac and deed
Tes. DAVID WRIGHT
Page 249 A true coppy of ye origginall deed entered by me NEHEMi SMITH-Cler
This Indenture made the eightteen day of Aprill in ye first year of the reigne of our Soverraignt Lord Gorge over Great Brittain &c. King Defender of ye Faith &c. and in the year of our Lord Christ seventeen hundred & fiftteen between Jeremiah Smith of Jamaica in Queens County within ye Colloney of New York felt- maker on the one part & John Carman of ye same place sadler on the other part wittnesseth that ye said Jeremiah
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Smith for & in consideration of ye sum of two pounds ·
lawfull money of New York to him in hand paid at & be- fore the ensalling and delivery of these presents ye receipt whereof he doth hereby own & acknowledge and thereof and of and from every part & parcell thereof doe by these presents forever acquitt exonerate and discharge ye said John Carman & his heirs execs and admins have given granted bargained sold alinated conveyed assured & confirmed & he the said Jeremiah Smith doth by these presents give grant bargaine sell alien convey assure & confirm unto ye said John Carman his heirs & assigns forever a certain peice or parsell of upland lying and being in ye township of Jamaica afore said in ye east end of ye town bounded as followeth that is to say bounded east by the street or highway that leadeth to ye bay side & bounded by ye above said Carman & bounded north and west by ye land of ye above named Jeremiah Smith a rod in breath by ye highway and thirty nine foot in lenth from ye highway together with all my right title esstate intrest claime property and demand of in & to ye said land afore said with ye reversions and remainders thereof to have and to hold ye said bar- gained land & premises unto the said John Carman and to his heirs and assigns to ye only sole & proper use benefitt and behoofe of ye said John Carman and his heirs and assigns forever and the said Jeremiah Smith Page 250
doth for himselfe his heirs execs admins covenant promise grant and agree to and with ye said John Carman his heirs & assigns in manner & form following that is to say that the said Jeremiah Smith at ye time of ye en- saleing and delivery of these presents had in himselfe good right & full power to alinate ye said land and primises in manner & form afore said and that ye same is free & clear of all incumbrance and truble whatsoever and that further that he ye said Jeremiah Smith and his heirs execs and admins the above granted land & premises unto him ye said John Carman & his heirs & assigns against him ye said Jeremiah Smith his heirs & assigns
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& against all other person & persons whatsoever att any time hereafter lawfully claimeing ye same or any part thereof shall & will warrant & for ever by these presents defend in wittness whereof ye said parties to these present indenture have put their hands & seales the day and year first before signing
Sealed & delivered in ye presents of
JEREMIAH SMITH 0
PRISILLA X SMITH her mark Memorandom that on ye thirty day of July seventeen hundred NEHEMIAH SMITH & eighteen appeared before me David Wright one of His Maigtes Jussteses for ye keeping peace within Queens County ye within named Jeremiah Smith and did acknowledge ye within instruement to be his own vollintary act and deed- Tes DAVID WRIGHT
A true coppy of ye origginal deed entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Cler-
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This Indenture made this fourteen day of September and in ye twelfe year of the reigne of our Soverreigne Lady Anne by ye grace of God of Great Brittain Ffrance & Irland Queene Defender of ye Faith &c. and in ye year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred & thirteen and between Ebenezer Smith of Jamaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island in ye Province of New York copper of ye one partee and John Carman of ye same place sadeller of ye other part wittnesseth that the above Ebenezer Smith for & in consideration of ye sum of fourteen pound corrant money of NewYork to him in hand paid by the above said John Carman at and before the ensealing & delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he doth hereby own and acknowledge himselfe to be therewith satisfied contented & paid and thereof & therefrom doe for ever exonerate aquitt and dis ye above said John Carman his heirs exec3 admins & every of them from every part and parsell thereof have
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given granted alien released asshured quitted claimed sold and made over and doe by these presents freely clearly and absolutely give grant aliene enfeofe likewise release asshure quitt claime sell and make over unto ye above said John Carman heirs & assigns forever all that peice parcell or lott of upland in ye Town of Jamaica afore said and bounded as followeth begining at ye southeast corner of ye lott of late belonging to John Rood late of Jamaica deseased and soe runing westterly by maine street cunty road thirty nine foot thence northerly seventy six foot thence easterly thirty nine foot to the fence thence southerly seventy six foot to ye place of begining being seventy six foot in length & thirty nine foot in breath all which said tract or parcell of land as above bounded & exsprest with ye house out houses fencesing improve- ments previledges appurtenances commodity to ye Page 252
same belonging or in any manner of ways appertaining of him the said Ebenezer Smith to him ye said John Carman his heirs & assigns to have and to hold forever and ye above said Ebenezer Smith for himselfe his heirs execs & admins doe covenant promise & agree to & with to & with ye above said John Carman his heirs & assigns for ever and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents he was the true lawfull owner of ye above granted primises and that he had full power & authority for to sell & disspose of the same in manner & form afore said and that ye said John Carman his heirs and assigns shall and may at all times forever hereafter have hold occupy posess and injoye the above said land & primises as his or their own land of inheritance in fee simple freely & clearly discharged of and from all former givfts seales morgages dowrys intails judgments execu- tions or extents or any other title or incumbrance what- soever and allsoe will warrant and forever defend ve same against any person or persons whatsoever laying any just claime to ye same and will warrant & forever defend ye same by these presents and allsoe will seale and deliver any other or firmer deed or conveiance for ye
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primises as ye said John Carman shall be advised or procure to be drawn or his heirs or assigns by his asigns by his or their counsell larned in ye law for ye space of seven years next ensueing in wittness whereof ye parties to this present hath enterchangablely put their hands and afixed their seales ye day and year first above writ- ten-ye twenty nine line enterlined before sealing Saled & delivered EBENEZER SMITH 0 in presents of PRISILLA X SMITH
her mark A true copy of ye orignal entered
NEHEMIAH SMITH . by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Cler
Loock in page 257 ye acknowledgment
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This Indenture made the tenth day of Desember in the year of our Lord Christ seventeen hundred & tweenty four between John Everritt of Jamaica in Queens County on ye Island Nasaw within the Colloney of New York yeoman & Sarah his wife of the one part and John Carman of ye same place sadell maker on the other part wittnesseth that the said John Everitt by and with the consent & good likeing of his said wife signified by her being a party to and by her sealing and delivering of these presents for & in consideration of ye sum of ninety one pounds five shillings lawfull money of New York to him in hand paid by the above named John Carman before ye sealing & delivery of these presents the receipt of which said sum of money the said John Everitt doth hereby own & acknowledge and therefrom & thereof and of & from every part and parsell thereof doe by these presents forever acquit & discharge the said John Carman & execs & administrators hath givon granted bargained sold aliened enfeofted & confirmed and hereby he the said John Everitt doth give grant bargained sell aliene enfeo & confirme unto him the said John Carman & his heirs all that his the said John Everitt certain tract
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parsell or lott of land situate & lying near the township of Jamaica afore said containing eeightteen acers more or less as it was at first laid out which said tract of land is bounded northerly by ye maine street in Jamaica southerly in ye rear by a certain highway near ye land of Nathaniell Higbee eeasterly by land now or last in ye tennure & occupation of Joseph Smith & westerly by land now in ye possesion of Samuell Deane together ye fence heredittaments & appurtenances to the same be- longing or in any wise appertaining and all the right title intrest estate posession claime & demaind of him the said John Everitt & Sarah his wife of in & to the same or any part thereof with the reversions & remainders thereof to have and to hold the said above granted tract of land and premises with every their appurtenances unto him ye said John Carman & his heirs & assigns forever and the said John Everitt for himselfe his heirs Page 254
executors & admins doth hereby covenant promise grant agree to & with the said John Carman & his heirs & assigns in maner following to witt that he the said John Everitt att the time of ye sealing & delivering of these presents had in himselfe good right & lawfull & absolute power & authority to sell & convey the premises & part thereof unto him the said John Carman & his heirs & assigns in maner & form afore said and that the said above granted land and premises & every part thereof with every their appurtenances are free from all maner of incumbrance whatsoever and lastly that the said John Everitt & his heirs executors adminisstrators the said above hereby granted & intented to be granted tract of land & premises with appurtenances & every part thereof unto him ye said John Carman & his heirs & asigns and every of them against him the said John Everitt & Sarah his wife thire either and every of their heirs & assigns & allso against all other persons or persons whatsoever lawfully claimeing thee same or any part parcell or mem-
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ber thereof shall & will warrant and by these presents forever defend in wittnes whereof the said parties have to these presents interchangblely put their hands & seales the day & year hearin above first written Sealed & delivered by ye JOHN EVERITT 0 within named John Everitt in presents of ISAAC HICKS SAM !! CLOWS
Memorandom that full & peacable possesion & sersin of and in the lott of land within written with ye ap- purtenances in Jamaica was delivered by ye within named John Everitt to ye within named John Carman the thirteen day of Desember Anno Dom 1724-In presents of THOMAS CAULE ADAM GRIFFEN
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October ye 10d -- 1724 Then the within named John Everitt came personablely before me Isaac Hicks Esque Judge of ye Court of Common Please in Queens County and acknowledged this instrument to be volintary act & deed lett it be recorded- ISAAC HICKS
A true coppy of the orignall deed entered by me . NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk-
This Indenture made this thirty first of March & in ye first year of the reigne of our Soverraigne Lord Gorge over Great Brittain &c. King Defender of the Faith &c. and in ye year of our Lord Christ seventeen hundred & fiftteen between Gorge Woolcy of Jamaica in Queens County within ye Colloney of New York yeo- man on the one part & John Carman of the same place sadeller on ye other part wittnesseth that ye said Gorge Woolcy for & in consideration of the sum of two pounds
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lawfull money of New York to him in hand paid at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof he doth hereby own and acknowledge and thereof and of and from every part and parsell thereof doe by these presents forever acquitt exonerate and dis- charge ye said John Carman & heirs execs and admins. have given granted bargained sold alienated conveyed asshured and confirmed and he ye said Gorge Woolcy doth by these presents give grant bargaine sell aliene convey asshur and confirme unto ye said John Carman and his heirs and assigns forever a certain two acors & a halfe right of commonage and undevided land lying and being in ye bounds & limmitts of Jamaica afore said together with all my right title esstate intrest Page 256
claime property and demand of in & to the said land and primises with ye reversions and remainders thereof to have & to hold the said bargined tow acers and a halfe right of land and primises unto ye said John Carman and to his heirs & assigns to ye only sole & proper use benefitt and behoofe of ye said John Carman & his heirs and assigns for ever and the said Gorge Woolcey doth for himselfe his heirs execs & admins covenant promise grant and agree to & with the said John Carman his heirs & assigns in manner and form following that is to say that ye said Gorge Woolcy at ye time of ye ensealing & delivery of these presents had in himselfe good & full power to alienate ye said right of land and premises in manner & form as afore said and that the same is free & clear of all maner of incumbrance and trouble whatso- ever and that farther that he ye said Gorge Woolcey his heirs execs and admins the same above granted right and land unto him ye said John Carman and his heirs and assigns against him ye said Gorge Woolcy his heirs and assigns & against all other person or persons what- soever att any time hereafter lawfully claimeing the same or any part or percell thereof shall and will forever by these presents defend in wittness whereof the said Gorge Woolcy to these presentt indenture hath set his hand
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& affixed his seale ye day and year first above written- ye six line enterlined before signing
Sealed and delivered GORGE WOOLCY O
in presents of us
PRISILA X SMITH her mark
Queens County May ye 20th 1725-Then came before me Isaac Hicks Esq' Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Queens County above said the within named Gorge Woolcy who did own and acknowledge ye within instruement of conveyenc to be his free & vollintary act Page 257
and deed for ye uses therein mentioned and I have veiwed the same do find that in ye sixth line is a word raced and ye word sadler interlined and that there is a word raced in ye 21st and one in the 28th line-and no other
ISAAC HICKS
A true coppy of ye originall entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk
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November ye 20th 1713 ye within named Ebenezer Smith came before me did acknowledge ye within con- vaiyence to be his vollintary act and deed-
SAMLL BAYLES-
Jusstes of Peace in Queens County-
Know all men by these presents that doe by these presents give grant unto John Carpenter and to his heirs & assigns for to pass & repass over my land that I bought of ye John Carpenter on ye heither east neck for to cart hay and other ocations as ye said John Car- penter or his heirs or assigns at any time or times from hence forward forever as wittness my hand this six day of May Annoq 1726 DAVID WATERS
Entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk
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Recived from John Everett of Jamaica the sum of five pounds thirteen shillings and foure pence in full for five yeares quitt rent due from this Town of Jamaica for the yeare 1721-1722-1723-1724 and 1725 witness my hand this 18th day of May Anno D-1726 .
ARZHD ENNEDY- [ARCHIBALD KENNEDY]
Enterd by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk
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Whereas by a town vote of Jamaica in Queens County dated Jen'y 20th 1724/5 Mr. Roberd Croos minister of the said town was ordered by us & who was by ye said town appointed to put in possesion of ye personnage land both homstead and out land these may therefore certefie all persons that wee have according to ye vote & power above said put the said Mr. Roberd Cross in possesion of all the lands above said as wittness our hands this tweenty day of March 1724/5
SAMUELL SMITH JONATHAN WATTERS
This we desire to recorded in the town books Entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk
Know all men by these presents that wee Timothy Denton & Nehemiah Denton sons of Nathaniell Denton late deseased all of Jamaica in Queens County & in Colloney of New York wee the above named Timmothy & Nehemiah doe hereby for our selfes and for our heirs exec3 admins & assigns make a devision of severall peices of land given to us by ye will of our father to be eaqualy devided between us therefore wee agree that for ye home- stead & houses that our father dyed posesed of wee have concluded that Timothy is to have his eaquall halfe on ye east side only ye old houses our father left Nehemiah is to have the eaquall halfe after our mother & our sister
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Deborah has done with them they are to be valued by indeferent men & Nehemiah is to alow his brother Page 259
Timmothy three pounds out of ye value of houses out of his halfe part because Timmothy has taken ye east side of ye home lot & Nehemiah is to ye eaquall halfe on ye west side of ye said home lot and ye land lying above Israell Smith Timmothy is to have his eaquall halfe on ye west side & Nehemiah is to have his eaquall halfe on ye east side of said lot & the land lying on ye hills on each side of ye bay side path ye land on east side of ye parth Timmothy is to have his eaquall halfe on south side & Nehemiah is to have ye eaquall halfe on ye north side & the swamp between Nehemiah Smith & ye above lot is to remaine betwen them still undevided and ye land lying on the west side of the parth Timmothy is to have his eaquall halfe on the south end and Nehemiah is to have his eaquall halfe on ye north end this being our mutuall agreement in deviding our lands & houses which was given us by the will of our father in confirmation whereof wee the above said Timothy Denton and Nehe- miah Denton hath sett to our hands and affixed our sales this third day of October and in ye first year of His Magts reigne Anno Domi 1727 TIMOTHY DENTON 0
Signed sealed and delivered
NEHEMIAH DENTON 0
in ye presents of us
DAVID CALHOUN
NEHEMIAH SMITH
A true coppy of ye origginall agreement entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk
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This Indenture made the fifteenth day of Aprill in the first year of His Majestys reigne Annoq Domonie one thousand seven hundred & tweenty eight between Hezekiah Denton of Jamaica in Queens County on Nassaw Island in ye Colloney of New York black smith and Mary his wife of the one prat and Timothy Denton
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of the same place black smith of the other part wittnesseth that the said Hezeciah Denton & Mary his wife for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred & sixty pounds corrant money of the said Coloney well and truely by the said Timothy Denton to them the said Hezekiah Denton & Mary his wife in hand paid before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof they doe hereby acknowledge & themselfes therewith to be. fully & intirely satisfied contented & paid and thereof and therefrom & off & from every part and parcell thereof they doe fully freely clearly & absolutely acquitt exonerate release and discharge ye said Timothy Denton his heirs executors & admins have granted bargained sold conveyed enfeofed released asshured & confirmed & by these presents doe grant bargaine sell convey enfeofe release assure and confirme unto the said Timothy Denton and to his heirs & assigns for ever all that a certain messuage or tennement with a dwelling house barn orchard garden & well thereon containing by estimation six acers be the same more or less and is bounded northerly by ye maine country road leading through Jamaica easterly by Nathaniell Denton & William Stead southerly by John Smith & westerly by John Woolcy together with all and singular the rights priviledges commodities advantages hereditaments & appurtenances to ye same belonging or properly appertaining and ye reversions & reversions re- mainder & remainders rents issues and profits of the same Page 261
and of every part and parcell thereof to have and to hold ye primises before in and by these presents granted and conveyed with the appurtenances unto the said Timothy Denton and to his heirs & assigns to his & thire sole and only proper use benefit & behoofe for ever and ye said Hezeciah Denton and Mary his wife for them- selfes their heirs execs and admins doe covenant promise grant & agree to and with the said Timothy his heirs & assigns as follow that is to say that they the said Hezeciah Denton and Mary his wife have in themselfes at ye time of the sealing and delivery of these presents
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good right full power and lawfull and absolute authority to grant bargaine & sell the primises above mentioned in maner and form as afore said and that the same and every part and parcell thereof shall from hence forth forever hereafter remain abide containue and be unto the said Timothy Denton and to his heirs & assigns as a good perfect and indefeasiable estate of inheritance in fee simple and lastly that the said Hezeciah Denton and Mary his wife their heirs execs adminisstrators the above granted and conveyed primises with the appur- tenances unto ye said Timothy Denton and to his heirs & assigns against all persons whatsoever lawfully claime- ing the same or any part or parcell thereof shall and will warrant and forever by these presents defend in wittness whereof the said Hezeciah Denton & Mary his wife have hereunto set their hands & seales the day year first above written- HEZEKIAH DENTON 0 Sealed & delivered
MARY X DENTON 0
in the presents of BENJ& HINCHMAN WILLM WIGGINS
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Queens County May ye 11th 1728-then came the within Benj. Hinchman one of the wittnesses to the within written deed personnally before me Isaac Hicks Esq. Judge of the Common Pleas of said County and being sworn upon ye Holy Evangelists of Allmighty God sayeth that he see the within named Hezeciah Denton & Mary Denton signe seale & delivery the within written deed and acknowledged it to be his free & volun- tary act & deed-I allow this deed to be recorded
ISAAC HICKS
A true coppy of ye orignall deed entered by me NEHEMIAH SMITH-Clerk-
This Indenture made ye thirtieth day of Desember in the second year of the reigne of our soveraigne Gorge the second King over Great Brittain Ffrance & Island
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Defender of the Faith &c. Annoq Domoni one thousand seven hundred & twenty eight between Timothy Wood of Jamaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island in the Colloney of New York cord winder & Hannah his wife of the one part and William Watters of Jamaica above said yeoman on the other part whereas Richard Oldfeild late of Jamaica above said dyed seized & possesed of certain lands meadows tenements hereditaments & being soe seized did by his last will & testament dated the tweenty seventh day of Aprill Anno Dom 1727 give devise and bequeath unto his beloved wife Sarah his dewlling house barne orchard & fourteen acers of land adjoyning to the said dwelling together with four acers of wood- land & four acers of meadow grown as by the said last will & testemant more at large appears and further whereas Page 263
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