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these presents full power lawfull authority to sell and disspose of the same in manner and forme aforesd and alsoe will warrant and forever defend the same against any person or persons laying any just claime to the same in testamony whereof the above parties hath set to their
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hands and fixed their seals the day and year first above written
RAM GARISON O
Sealed and delivered in presence of JAMES DENTON SAMLL HIGBEE
Queens
County } May the first day 1734-Then came be-
fore me John Tolman one of the Judges for the Court of Common Pleas for Queens County the within named Ram Garison and acknoledge the within written deed of sale to be his act and deed-
JOHN TOLMAN
A true coppey of ye origenal deed and acknoledgmt entred & compared pr SAMLL. SMITH Junr Cler-
This Indenture made this twenty ninth day of March and in the sixth year of ye reign of our Soverign Laydy Anne by the grace of God over England Scotland France and Ireland Queen Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and seven and beteen Powel Amberman of Jamaica in Queens County on Nasaw Island in ye Province of New- York yeoman of the one part and William Golder of the same place yeoman of the other part witnesseth that the said Powel Emberman for and in consideration of the sum of forty pounds currant money of New York to him in hand paid by the abovesd William Golder at or before Page 293
the ensealing and and delivery of these presents the recept whereof he doth hereby one and acknoledg himselfe to be therewith satisfied contented and paid and thereof and therefrom doe forever exonirate acquit and discharge the abovesd William Golder his heirs exs and adm3 and every of them from every part and percel thereof have given granted enfeofed released confirmed assured quited claimd sold and made over unto ye abovesd William Golder his heirs and assigns forever all that
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peice percel or lot of land situate lying and being in the bounds of Jamaica aforesd in a division commonly called the east division and containing by estimation thirteen acres and halfe be the same more or less and bounded as followeth that is to say east by Fosters River or marked trees and west by a highway and north by the land of Peter White and south by by ye land of ye abovesd William Golder all which land as above bounded and exprest together with all and singuler ye trees timber trees woods under woods standing lying or belonging to ye same with all and singuler ye priviledges appurte- nances hereditements and emoliments to the same be- longing or any maner of ways appertaining to the same with all the estate right title surty claim and demand of him the abovesd Powel Emberman his heirs exs or adms to him the abovesd William Golder to have and to hold to him his heirs exs & assigns for ever and the same - to be and remain to the only proper use benifit and behoof of him his heirs and assigns for ever and that the said William Golder shall and may from time to time and at all times forever hereafter have hold occupie posses and enjoy ye above recited land and granted premises as his or their one land of inheritance in fee simple freely and clearly discharged of and from all former gifts grants mortgages sales extents or executions , or any title or incumbrance whatever with a warrantee to defend ye same against any person or persons whatever lawfully claiming the same and alsoe will seale and dilever any other or firmer firmer deed or convaience for the Page 294
primises of the said William Golder his heirs or assigns shall be advised or procured to be drawn by his or their councel learned in the law for the space of seven years next after the date hereof in testimony whereof the parties abovesd hath put to their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first above written
POWEL EMBERMAN
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Sealed and delivered in presence of MARTHA X MILLS her mark ZACH MILLS
Queens
August the 22d day 1734-
County } S.S. Then came before me John Tolman one of the Judges for the Court of Common Pleas for Queens County the within named Powel Amberman and acknoledg the within written deed of sale to be his act and deed JOHN TOLMAN
A true coppey of ye origenal deed & acknoledgmt entred & compared pr SAMLL SMITH-Junr-Cler-
This Indenture made this sixteenth day of May and in the thirteenth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George King of Grate Brittain and so forth and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred and twenty seven and beteen Andrew Gale of Jamaica in Queens County on Nassaw Island and in the Province of New York of the one part and William Golder of the same place of the other part witnesseth that ye said Andrew Gale for and in consideration of ye sum of twenty three pounds currant money of New York to him in hand paid by the said William Golder at and before the en- sealing and delivery of these presents the recept whereof he the sd Andrew Gale doth one and acknoled himselfe to be therewith satisfied contented and paid and of every part thereof doth by these presents aquit releas and dis- charge the said William Golder his heirs exs adms for ever have given granted granted bargained assured Page 295
quited claim sold and made over and he the said Andrew Gale doth by these presents grant bargain sell allienate enfefe assure convay and confirme to the said William Golder and to his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece percel & equal halfe part of a teen acre lot of medow be the same more or less being in the bounds of Jamaica
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aforesaid in a place commonly called the further east neck and bounded as followeth that is to say north by John Hans and south by the bay and east by Benjamin Coe and west by Nicholas Lambert & the said Andrew Gale it being the equal east halfe part of said teen acre lot of medow with all and singuler the profitt possession claim and demand of what ever of him the sd Andrew Gale of in or to the sd medow and premises and the reversions and remainders thereof to have and to hold ye sd granted bargained medow and premises with every of their appurtenances unto ye sd William Golder his heirs and assigns forever to his and their sole proper use benifit profitt & behofe for ever and he the sd Andrew Gale doth for himselfe his heirs exs adms covenant promise grant & agree to & with ye sd William Golder his heirs and assigns that he the sd Andrew Gale had in himselfe good right & full power to alienate and convey ye above mentioned medow & premises with every of their appurte- anances and lastly ye sd Andrew Gale his heirs exs adms ye sd granted medow and premises & their appurtenances to ye sd William Golder and to his heirs & assigns against any person or persons justly claiming ye same or any part thereof will warrant and for ever defend in testa- money whereof ye parties have put to their hands & seals the day and year first above written
Sealed and delivered
ANDREW X GALE 0 in presence of his mark JOSHUA PETTIT SAMLL. HIGBEE
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Queens May the fivfth day 1734
County S.S. Then came before me John Tolman one of the Judges for the Court of Common Pleas for Queens County the within named Andrew Gale and did acknoledge the within written deed of sale to be his act and deed-Let this deed be recorded JOHN TOLMAN
A true coppey of ye oregenal deed and acknoledgment entred and compared pr me SAMLL. SMITH-Jun' Cler-
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This Indenture made the foreteenth day of May and in the year of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hun- dred and thirty three beteen Ram Nosstrant of Jamaica in Queens County on ye Island of Nassaw in ye Colony of New York shewmaker of ye one part and William Golder of the same place County Island and Coloney above said whelewright on ye other part witnesseth that ye said Ram Norsstrant for and in consideration of the sum of ninty five pounds currant money of New York afore said to him in hand paid by ye said William Golder before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the recept of which he doth hereby one and acknoledg him- selfe to be therewith satisfied and paid and therefrom and of and from every part thereof doth by these presents aquit and discharge the said William Golder his heirs exes and admers forever have granted bargaind sold alliened enfefed assured and confirmed and doth by these presents give grant bargain sell aline enfeof enfeof Page 297
assure and confirme unto the said William Golder and to his heirs and assigns forever one certain parcel of land situate and being in the bounds of Jamaica aforesd in a village called Springfeild bounded that is to say on the west to a fence now standing on the east side of a highway that leadeth along on the east side of ye run caled Springfield run on the north by land of the afore said William Golder east by ye line that devideth Hem- stead and Jamaica south by land of the abovesd Ram Nosstrant the premises to extend so far south as to contain twenty acres together with all and singular the commodities fencing timber trees woods under woods standing or lying with all advantages profitts and benifits whatsoever thereunto belongeth or in any manner of ways appertaining and the reversions and remainders thereof to have and to hold the said granted and above mentioned percel of land and premises with the ap- purtenances unto the said William Golder and to his
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heirs and assigns to his and their sole and proper use benefitt and behoof forever and the said Ram Norsstrant doth hereby for himselfe his heirs exers and admers cove- nant promise to and with the said William Golder his heirs and assigns that the said Ram Nosstrant im- mediately before the signing and sealing of this in- denture had in himself good right and legall power to allienate and convey the said percel of land & premises and there and every of there appurtenances in manner and forme as above said and further that the same & every part thereof with all and singular the said ap- purtenances unto the said William Golder his heirs and assigns shall abide remain and continue as a pure per- fect and indefeazable estate of inheritance in fee simple and alsoe that the said percel of land and premices with the appurtenances is cleared and freed from all all Page 298
incumbrance whatsoever and further allso lastly that the , said Ram Nosstrant his heirs exers and admers the said percel of land with all and singular of the appurtenances unto the said Willian Golder his heirs and assigns against all persons or person lawfully at any time hereafter claim- ing the same or of any part thereof shall and will warrant and by these presents forever defend in testamony whereof the said Ram Norsstrant hath hereunto sett his hand and seal the day and year above first written Signed sealed and delivered RAM NORSSTRANT 0 in the presence of us
the word three in the second line the words on the west the thirteen line interlined before ensealing RICHARD EVERIT
JAMES DENTON
Queens May the first day 1734
County S.S. Then came before me John Tollman one of the Judges for the court of Common Pleas for Queens County the within named Ram Northstran
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and acknoledg the within written deed of sale to be his act and deed-Let this deed be recorded-
JOHN TOLMAN
A true coppey entred and compared by me
SAMLL. SMITH-Junr-Cler-
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This Indenture made the tenth day of Aprill in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George over Grate Brittain &c. Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and eighteen beteen Mariah a free negro woman formerly a slave of William Creed of Jamaica in Queens County yeoman deceased of the one part & Richard Betts of Jamaica above said yeoman on the other part witnesseth that whareof some time agoe aboute foure years one Isaac Depeyster of New York did give unto ye said Maria a negro child imediately after the same was borne to be kept nursed & maintained & to be to her one use & behoof & her assigns forever now ye said Maria of her one free will & desire hath put and bound the said child named Mary an apprintice & servente to the said Richard Betts to serve him or his assigns for the space of seven years from the date hereof next ensuing & the said Maria doth hereby covenante that the said Mary shall during ye sd time well and faithfully serve the said Richard Betts & his assigns & the said master for himselve his exes & assigns in con- sideration thereof doth hereby covenant promise & agree to and with ye said Maria & her assigns that he the said master or his assigns shall and will during the said time provide & finde for ye said servent sufficient wholsome diet & aparrel & alsoe in ye said time to use his or there endeavour to teach the said servent to read so that he or they may not be compelled to send her to any scool out of the house & at ye end of ye sd terme the sd master or his assigns shall give and deliver unto the said Mary two sutes of cloaths one for every day & the other for holy days in wittness whereof the partys to these presents
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indenture have hereunto sett there hands & seals ye day & year above first written RICHARD BETTS o Sealed & delivered in presence of us
GARBRILL LUFF
JOSEPH SMITH
A true coppey of ye oreginal indenture entred & com- pared pr. SAMLL. SMITH-Cle-
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July ye 22d 1735-Att the request of John Higbee we the comisoners for the town of Jamaica for the laying out of high ways have thought fitt to lay out from John Higbees land to ye mill path two rood wide runing by ye west end of Nehemiah Ludlums and William Wiggins land to ye sd path as witness our hands ye day above sd RICHD. BETTS SAMLL. HIGBEE D. WHITEHEAD
A true coppey entred and compared by me
SAMLL SMITH Jun' Cle-
Memorandom that on ye day of July Anno Dom 1735 we whose names are under ritten commisinors of the high ways for the town of Jamaica have laid a way of fore roods wide from the haw tres south highway near John Dorlands house to Kings County as the path now runs and have moved the way that here to fore was laid out the north end of John Snedicors Lane to whare the way now runs as witness our hands the day abovesd-
A true coppey entred and compared by me
RICHD. BETTS D. WHITEHEAD SAM11 HIGBEE
SAMLL. SMITH-Jun' Cler-
Memorandom that wee whose names are under written commissioners of ye highways for the town of Jamaica
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have at the request of Silas Titus & Samuel Coe of New- town laid a gate way of twenty futt wide to their medow on Salers neck else Long neck begining at the north end of the causway so runing as the path now runs till it comes to the southwest corner of at ditch that ,was formerly made by Justice Hunt deceased thence to a stake on the south east corner of Samuel Coes medow Page 301
thence along along upon the upland by the edge of the medow to Silas Titus his medow thence runing southerly across sd neck of upland to a stake that parts the salt medow of the above sd Titus and Coe performed by us the third day of Sept. Anno Dom 1735-
RICHD. BETTS SAMLL HIGBEE D. WHITEHEAD
A true coppey entred and compared by me SAMLL. SMITH Jun'-Clerk
Memorandom that on the third day of September 1735 we whose names are under written commisinoers of the highways for the town of Jamaica have at the request of Silas Titus laid a way of twenty foot wide begining at another highway on Salers neck else Long neck on the north side of the upland so runing westwardly upon ye upland as the path now runs till it comes to the medow of the said Titus which lyes on the north side of said upland witness our hands the day abovesd-
RICHD. BETTS SAMLL. HIGBEE
A true coppey entred and D. WHITEHEAD- compared by me SAMLL. SMITH-Junr. Cle-
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October ye Ist 1734
By vertue of an act of Assembly we the commissioners for the town of Jamaica have laid oute a highway be- gining at the highway by Thomas Farmors house runing easterly by Cornelious Ryders land to the land of Daniel
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Coe deseased and from thence to the mill of said Coe it being two roods wide
SAMLL. HIGBEE D. WHITEHEAD RICHD. BETTS
A true coppey entred and compared by me SAMLL. SMITH-Jun' Cle-
This Indenture made the seventh day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & twenty five beteen Thomas Welling of Jamaica in Queens County within the Colony of New York yeoman of the one part and William Creed of the same place grandson & heir of William Creed late of Jamaica afore said gent deceased of the other part witnesseth that the said Thomas Welling for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings lawfull money New York to him in hand paid by the said William Creed Jun' the recept whereof he doth hereby acknoledge hath bargained & sold & by these presents doth bargain & sell unto the said William Creed three certain tracts or percels of land situate and being on the hills within the township of Newtown in Queens County abovesaid one of which said tract of land is in length sixty roods & forty five roods in breadth & is bounded south by land lately in the tenner and occupation of said William Creed sen' east by Content Titus north by Casper Joost Spring- steen and west by the land of John Deane one other part of the said tracts of land is bounded south & east by land late in the occupation of the said William Creed the elder north by land lately belonging to Thomas Morrel and west Page 303
by by land belonging to Ffrancis Comes's childrens and is sixty roods long & fifteen broad containing five acres & a half the other of the said tracts of land is bounded east by the aforesaid Springsteen south by John Dean aforesaid west by Jacob Vanderbilt & north by land lately belonging to John Berrian deceased George Brinkerhoofe & the aforesaid Thomas Morrel being sixty eight roods in length and twenty one in breadth and contains eight
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acres & three quarters & the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders together with the rents and profits of the premisses & every part thereof to have & to hold the said three tracts of land & all & singular the remisses herein mentioned and intended to be hereby bargained & sold with their and every of their appur- tenances unto the said William Creed Junr his executors administrators & assigns from the day before the date hereof for and during the terme of one whole year from thence next ensuing & fully to be compleat & ended yeild- ing & paying therefore the yearly rent of one pepper corne att the feast of St. Michael the Arch Angel only if the same be lawfully demanded to the intent that by virtue of these presents and of the statute for transfering of usses into a possession the said William Creed may be in the actual possession of the premises & be ennabled to accept a grant of the reversions & inheritance thereof to him & his heirs in witness whereof the said parties have interchanably to these presents put their hands & seals the day and year above first written
Sealed & delivered Jos. MURREY JNº CHAMBERS
THOMAS X WELLING O his mark
S. CLOWS
A true coppey pr. SAMLL SMITH, Junr. Cle-
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This Indenture made the eight day of January in ye year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & twenty five between Thomas Welling of Jamaica in Queens County within the Colony of New York yeoman of the one part and William Creed the grandson & heir apparant of William Creed late of Jamaica aforesaid gent de- ceased of ye other part whereas by one indenture baring date the seventh day of October in the year of our Lord Christ seventeen hundred & fifteen made or mentioned to be made beteen the above named William Creed the elder Thomas Cornel Thomas Whitehead & Samuel
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Clowes executors of the last will & testament of William Creed Junr deceased who was the son of the said William Creed the elder of the one part and the said Thomas Welling of the other part it is witnessed that the said executors for & in consideration of the sum of sixty pounds lawfull money of NewYork paid by the said Thomas Welling to the said executors some or one of them for ye use of the estate of the said William Creed Junr. have given granted bargained sold aliened en- feoffed assured & confirmed unto the said Thomas Welling & his heirs and assigns for ever (pursuent to the powers athority & directions to the said executors given by the last will and testament of the said William Creed Junr.) all those three certain tracts or percels of land situate & being on the hills within the township of Newtown in Queens County above said one of which said tracts of land is in length sixty roods & forty five roods in breadth and is bounded south by land lately in the tenner and occupation of the said William Creed the elder east by Content Titus north by Casper Casper Joost Springsteen Page 305
& west by the land of John Deane one other of the said tracts of land is bounded south & east by land late in the occupation of the last named William Creed north by land lately belonging to Thomas Morrel and west by land belonging to Franciss Comes's children & is sixty roods long and fifteen broad containing five acres & a half the other of the said tracts of land is bound east by the aforesaid Springsteen south by John Dean afore said west by Jacob Vanderbilt and north by land lately be- longing to John Berrian deceased George Brinkerhoofe and the aforesaid Thomas Morrel being sixty eight roods in length & twenty one in breadth and contains eight acres & three quarters and all rights proffits privelidges hereditements & appurtenances to them or any of them in any wise belonging or appertaining as by the said indenture relation being thereunto had may more fully appear now this indenture witnesseth that the said Thomas Welling doth hereby declare & acknowledge
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that he has ben informed by credible persones that his name was used in the afore said conveyance by the special nomination & appointment of the said William Creed the elder (since deceased) and in trust for him & his heirs and that the sixty pounds above mentioned paid for the purchase thereof was the proper moneys of him the said William Creed the elder & therefore in per- suence of the trust in him the said Thomas Welling reposed by the said William Creed the elder and alsoe in consideration of five shillings to him in hand paid by the said William Creed the younger he the Thomas Well- ing hath granted remised released and confirmed and by these presents doth grant remise release & confirm unto the first above named William Creed the grandson and heir apparant of the said William Creed the elder and Page 306
to his heirs and assigns all and singular ye said three tracts of land & premises before mentioned with their heredita- ments which in and by the said recited indenture were granted & conveyed unto him the said Thomas Welling of all which premises the said William Creed is now in full possession by virtue of a bargain & sale thereof to him by the said Thomas Welling for the terme of a year from the sixth day of this instant January as by the indenture baring date the day next before the day of the date hereof may appear and the said Thomas Welling doth farther by these presents (for the consideration afore said) grant remise releas & confirme unto the said William Creed the younger his heirs & assigns the reversions & remainders of all and singular the primises & every part thereof & the rents profits & advantages thereunto incident & belonging and alsoe all the estate right title intrest use profits property benefit trust claime & de- mand whatsoever of him the said Thomas Welling of in and to the same premises and every part thereof to have and to hold the said lands & premises hereby granted or mentioned to be granted with evry the appurtenances unto the said William Creed his heirs and assigns for ever to the only proper use and behoof of the said William
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Creed his heirs and assigns for ever in as full large and ample manner to all intents and purposes as he the said Thomas Welling now has or can claim or as he or his heirs at any time hereafter could or might claim or have by virtue of the before recited indenture and to no other use intent or purpose whatsoever and the said Thomas Page 307
Welling Welling for himselfe his heirs executors ad- ministrators and assigns and for every of them doth covenant promise & grant to and with the said William Creed first mentioned his heirs and assigns by by these presents the he the said Thomas Welling hath not done or willingly & witingly suffered to be done any act or thing whatsoever whereby the said three tracts of land & premises or any of them are or may be any ways im- peached charged or incumbred in title charge estate or otherwise in witness whereof the said parties to these presents have interchangably put their hands & seals the day & year first above written Sealed and delivered (the words of the son) in the first sheat of this deed being first bloted out and the words he has ben informed by credible persons that between ye fifth and sixt lines the words (so said to be) between the tenth and eleventh lines and the words and alsoe in consideration of five shillings to him in hand paid by the said William Creed the younger between the eleventh & twelfth lines all of the second sheet of this deed being first interlined-
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