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Esqe one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Queens County and acknowledged this instrument to be their voluntary act and deed there are in it no razours or interliniations
JOHN TOLMAN
27th March 1746 A true coppey entred & compared by me SAMLL SMITH-Cle-
This Indenture made the ninth day of May in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George over Grate Brittain &c. Annoqe Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine between Jonathan Dean of Jamaica in Queens County and Province of New York house carpenter and Elizabeth his his wife of the one part and Nicolas Everitt of the same place yeoman one the other part witnesseth that the said Jonathan Dean and Ellizabeth his wife for and in consideration of the Page 405
sum of two hundred and one pounds fourteen shillings & six pence currant lawfull money of New York to them or to one of them in hand at or before the ensealing & delivery of these presents by the said Nicolas Everit the ye receipt whereof they do hereby own and acknowl- edge themselves to be therewith fully satisfied contented and thereof and of every part & persal therof do hereby acquit & discharge the said Nicolas Everit his heirs ex"" admrs and assigns for ever have granted bargained sold aliened assurd and confirmed and they the said Jonathan Dean and Elizabeth his wife do by these presents for themselves their either and every of their heirs absolutely freely clearly grant bargain sell alliene assure & confirme unto the said Nicolas Everit and to his heirs and assigns forever one double house barn and shop orchard & garden and a percel of upland situate lying and being in Ja- maica aforesaid bounded as follows northerly by Robert Denton & Ephraim Smith's lands easterly by land form- erly belonging to Wait Smith and also by Barnet's land southerly by by Joshua Carpenter's land westerly bf
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the county road also one piece of land formerly belonging to Waid Smith being and lying in the same place bounded northerly by the land of Waid Smith aforesaid easterly by the land of Nicolas Everit aforesaid souththerly by the aforesaid land of Jonathan Dean & westerly by Ben- jamin Smith's land as it is entred in the County Records the 20th day of August 1699 in page 149 & 150 con- taining in all thirty five acres three quarters & thirty square roods be it more or less and all and singular the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said housses barn shop orchard garden and lands or in any ways ap- pertaining to the said houses barn shop orchard garden and lands and the reversion or reversions remainder or remainders thereof to have and to hold the said granted and bargained premises housses barn shop orchard garden Page 406
& lands with the the appurtenances to the said Nicolas Everit his heirs and assigns for ever and the said Jonathan Dean for him his heirs ex's adm's and every of them do covenant and grant to and with the said Nicolas Everit his heirs ex's adm's and assigns and every of them firinly by these presents in manner and form following that is to say that he the said Jonathan Dean and Elizabeth his wife or one of them in their or one of their own right or to their or one of their own use now are to be and standeth lawfully seazed of a good perfect and absolute estate in the law in fee simple of and in the said housses barn shop orchard and garden & lands and premises with their appurtenances and have or one of them hath good and lawfull right & authority to bargain sell and assign for- ever according to the true meaning of these presents and that the said premises herein before mentioned to be granted with every of their appurtenances now are and forever hereafter shall be and continue clear and dis- charged & acquitted or otherwise at all times saved harm- less by the said Jonathan Dean his heirs ex's admrs of and from all and singular former bargains sales grants bonds dowries title of dower of Elizabeth the wife of Jonathan Dean and that he the said Nicolas Everit his
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heirs and assigns shall and may peacably and quietly from hence forth forever hereafter have hold use occupie posses and enjoy ye said above mentioned bargained premises without lett trouble or expultion of or by him the said Jonathan Dean Elizabeth his wife or otherwise by any other person or persons by any means title or .
procurement of him the said Jonathan or Elizabeth his wife aforesaid and further also the sd Jonathan Dean his heirs and assigns the above granted houses barn shop orchard garden land and hereditements and Page 407
and premises & appurtenances unto the said Nicolas Everit his heirs and assigns against him the said Jona- than Dean his heirs and assigns and against all and every other person or persons lawfully claiming the same or any part of the same shall warrant and by these presents forever defend defend I witness whereof the the said parties have hereunto sett their hands and seals the day and year first above written
Sealed and delivered JONATHAN DEAN 0
in the presence of
ELIZABETH X DEAN 0
J. MILLER her mark
WILLIAM X LUDLAM
his mark
Jamaica 7ber 18th 1730
Queens Then came before me John Tolman Esqe
County one of his Majesties Judges of the Court of Comons Pleas for said county Jonathan Dean how did acknowledge the within deed to be his free and voluntary act and deed the word here in the eleventh line razed finding no other razour nor interlines I alow this deed to be recorded JOHN TOLMAN
1st Aprill 1746
Entred and compared pr SAMLL SMITH-Cle-
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This Indenture made the tenth day of May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and forty three
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between Benjamin Carman of Jamaica in the Province of New York yeoman of the one part and Robert Denton and Nehemiah Denton both of the same place yeoman of the other part witnesseth that the said Benjamin Carman for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred pounds lawfull money of NewYork to him in hand paid by the said Robert Denton and Nehemiah Denton at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the recept . whereof the said Benjamin Carman doth hereby own and acknowledge himselfe to be therewith fully satisfyed & paid and thereof doth hereby forever acquit exonerate & discharge them the said Robert Denton and Nehemiah Denton and their heirs executors and administrators and for divers other good causes & considerations him the said Benjamin Carman at this time especially moving hath given granted bargained sold and in open market at Jamaica aforesaid, according to the due forme of law in that case made and provided hath delivered and by these presents doth fully and clearly give grant bargain sell and deliver unto the said Robert Denton and Nehe- miah Denton their heirs executors and assigns for ever one certain dweling house with the garding spot of ground thereto adjoyning situate in Jamaica town spot where the said Benjamin Carman now lives which is bounded southerly by the main street westerly & northerly by Samuel Clowes & easterly part by the said Clowes and partly by Benjamin Hinchman also one certain piece of salt meadow situate on Long Neck in Jamaica aforesaid adjoyning to Skidmores mill dam being bounded southerly by a ditch & on all other sides by the crick and also the following goods and chattels vizt three bedds and bed- Page 409
steads bedsteads twelve cows & eighteen yong cattle, four mares, one waggon one plough, weaving tackling, one cuboard, three puter platters four basons, and twelve plates, two iron pots one iron kittle, & one brass kittle, one pette-augue, six swine, one pair of large scales twelve chairs two chests, twenty six pounds woorstead yarn, & forty pounds of tow yearn, two guns,
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and two swords, eight kelars; three tubs & two pales, two mens saddles, & one womans saddle, three tables, twenty corn baggs, twenty bushels of rie, three trammils two pare tongs & two iron shovels, two frying pans, one large cooler one grindstone, two axes, two hones, carpent- ers tools, one warming pan one pair of stillards one looking glass, four smoothing irons, one pair andirons and one hetched, and all and singular other the goods chattels household stuff utentials of husbandry and all other the substance whatsoever, moveable and im- moveable, quick and dead of what kind, nature quallity or condition soever the same be, shall or may be found, as well in the custoty or possession of the said Benjamin Carman as in the possession, hands power & costoty of any other person or persons whatsoever to have & to hold the said dwelling house garding spot of ground piece of meadow and all and singular the herein above men- tioned bedds bedsteads cows cattle mares waggons goods & chattels & all other the herein & hereby granted premises unto the said Robert Denton & Nehemiah Denton there heirs ex's admrs and assigns, to their own only proper use benefit and behoof forever (excepting a certain terme of years in a certain farm and thirty head of cattle lately leased by Daniel Whitehead unto the said Benjamin Carman) freely and quietly without any matter of challenge claime or demand of him the said Benjamin Carman or of any other person or persons whatsoever for him in his name by his cause means or procurement and without any money or other thing therefore to be yielded rendred paid or done (more then the considera- tions herein above first mentioned) unto the said Benja- min Carman his executors administrators or assigns by the said Robert Denton or Nehemiah Denton their Page 410
their executors administrators or assigns and the said Benjamin Carman for himself his heirs ex's & adm" doth covenant and grant by these presents to and with the said Robert Denton & Nehemiah Denton their heirs ex's & assigns that he the Benjamin Carman at
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the time of the date hereof was the true sole and proper owner of the said hereby bargained premises and every of them and then had good right full power & lawfull authority to convey and sell the same in manner and form aforesaid and further the said Benjamin Carman hath put the said Robert Denton and Nehemiah Denton in peacable & quiat possession of the said dwelling house land and meadow and all other the premises according to the directions of the laws in that case made provided In witness whereof the said Benjamin Carman hath hereunto put his hand and seal the day and year herein above first written BENJAMIN CARMAN O
Sealed & delivered
in the presence of us
JOHN THURSTON
SAMUEL SKIDMORE
The day & year within written received the considera- tion money within mentioned
I say receivd the same by me
Witness
June ye 2d 1746-Personally appeared before me John Willett Esqe one of the Judges of the inferiour Court of Common Pleas held for Queens County Samuel Skid- more one of the subscribed witnesses witnesses to the
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within instrument of writing and made oath that he saw Benjamin Carman the grantor within named seal and deliver the within instrument of writing as his voluntary act and deed for the use within mentioned-I have exam- ined the same do find in it no raisures nor interliniations do alow the same to be recorded
Sworn and examined before me the day above written- JOHN WILLETT-J-
3d June 1746
A true coppey of the origonal with ye acknowledg- · ment entred by me SAMLL SMITH-Junr. Cle-
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This Indenture made this first day of Febuary in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George by the grace of God of Grate Brittan France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith &c. and in the year of mans salvation seventeen hundred and fiveteen between William Cornell of Hempstead in Queens County on Nassaw Island in the Province of New York Esqe of the one part and Garrett Van. Horne of the city of New- York gent. of the other part witnesseth that the said William Cornell for and in consideration of the sum of thirty pounds good and lawfull money of the Province of New York to him in hand paid by the said Garrett Page 412
Van-Horne before the the ensealing of these presents the recept whereof the said William Cornell do by these presents forever acquit and discharge the said Garrett Van-Horne his heirs ex's adm's from any furder claim or demand from any part persel or member thereof have given granted bargained alienated enfeofed sold assured and confirmed and the said William Cornell do by these presents give grant bargain alien enfeof sell assure and confirme unto the said Garrett Van-Horne and his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece or persel of upland sit- uate lying and being within the township of Hempstead above said at a place commonly called or known by the name of Rockway Neck containing seventy acres more or less as it now lyes within the bounds & lymits here- after exprest (viz.) westerly by Thomas & John Cornell south by him the said John Cornell north by the boggs and east by the commons or undevided land within the township of Hempstead abovesaid with all houses out houses barns stables orchards gardens fencings timber trees woods under woods standing or lying being upon the same or any part persel or member thereof as also all the estate right title intrest property possession claim or demand of in or to the same with the remainders and reversions thereof to have and to hold the sd above re- cited tract of land with all and every of the appurte- nances unto him the said Garrett Van-Horne his heirs
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exrs and adm's to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said Garrett Van-Horne his heirs and assigns for- Page 413
ever for ever and the said William Cornell for himself his heirs ex's and admrs doe further covenant promise grant and agree to and with him the said Garrett Van- Horne and his heirs and assigns that he the said William Cornell had in himself full power good right and lawfull authority to sell and dispose of the above granted bar- gained land with all and every of the appurtenances. unto him the said Garrett Van-Horne his heirs and assigns forever more free and clearly acquitted and dis- charged of and from any manner of entangelments of what nature or kind so-ever with a warrante to defend against all persons laying just claim thereunto In wit- ness whereof the said William Cornell hath put to his hand and seal the year and day first above written-
Sealed and delivered WM. CORNELL 0
in the presence of
JOHN CORNELL
THOS. WHITEHEAD
Memorandom that on the twenty fourth day of Febuary 1715 came before Theodoras Van Wick Esqe one of His Majtes Justices of the Peace for Queens County assigned the within named William Cornell and did own and acknowledge that he did seal and deliver the within written deed for the use within mentioned
THEODORAS VAN WICK
12th November 1746
A true coppey entred and compared ye date above of ye origonal deed & acknowledgemt
pr SAMLL SMITH-Junr. Cle-
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Know all men by these presents that I Benjamin Carman of Jamaica in Queens County in the Province of New York labouror (being by the leave of God bound on a voyage to the West Indias) have by these presents made ordained constituted and in my place & stead
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put and deputed my honoured mother Phebe Carman of the same place widow my true and lawfull attorney for me and in my name and for my use to ask demand sue for levy recover & receive all such sums and sums of money debts goods wares dues and other demands what- soever which are or shall be due owing payable and belonging unto me or detained from me any manner of ways or by any meanes whatsoever by any person or persons whomsoever & wheresoever giving and granting unto my said attorney by these presents my full & whole power strength and authority in and aboute the premises to have use and take all lawfull ways & means in my name for ye recovery thereof and upon the receipt of any such debts dues sum or sums of money aforesaid acquittances or other sufficient discharges for me or in my name to make seal & deliver and generally all and every act & acts thing & things device and devices what- soever needfull & necessary to be done in and about the premises for the recovery of all or any such debts dues sum or sums of money aforesaid for me & in my name to do execute and performe as fully largely & amply to all intents & purposes as I my selfe might or could do if I was personably present or as if the matter required more special authority than is herein given and attorneys one or more under her for the purposes aforesaid to make Page 415
and constitute constitute and again at pleasure to revoke rattifying allowing & holding for firm & effectually and whatsoever my said attorney shall lawfully do in and aboute the premises by vertue hereof-And I the said Benjamin Carman considering ye uncertainty of this transitory life do make & declare these presents to con- tain my last will & testament (that is to say) I give & bequeath unto my much honoured & most dearly beloved mother Phebe Carman above named all & whatsoever I shall get in my intended voyage after my decease and all the rest of my estate be it lands tenements bonds ready money goods chattels debts dues or other demands what- soever wherewith at the time of my decease I shall be
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possesed of or invested with or which shall then belong or of right appertain unto me to have and to hold the same & every part or percel thereof unto her my said mother her ex's & assigns forever and I do hereby nomi- nate and appoint my said mother Phebe Carman to be my whole & sole exer of this my last will & testament and do declare this and no other to be my last-In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand & seal this tenth day of November Anno. Dom. 1746
Signed sealed & delivered BENJAMIN CARMAN 0
in ye presence of us WILLIAM LAWRENCE
JOHN THURSTON, Junr. BENJA. HINCHMAN
Be it remembred that on the day and year within written personably appeared before me Abraham Pol- hemus one of His Majesties Justices of the Peace in and for Queens County assigned ye within named Benjamin Carman & acknowledged the within written letter of attorney to be his own voluntary act and deed for the use therein mentioned ABRAHAM POLHEMUS
January 24: 1746/7 A true coppey entred pr SAMLL SMITH-Cle-
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This Indenture made the first day of May in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and forty five beteen William Higbee of Jamaica in Queens County in the Province of New York yeoman of the one part and Nicolas Smith of the same place yeoman of the other part wit- nesseth that the said William Higbee for and in con- sideration of the sum of three hundred & thirty five pounds lawfull money of New York to him in hand paid at and before the ensealling & delivery of these presents the recept whereof the said William Higbee doth hereby acknowledge and therefrom and of and from every part & percel thereof doth by these presents absolutely acquit
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release exonerate & discharge the said Nicolas Smith and his executors & administrators and every of them and for other good causes & lawfull considerations him there- unto moveing he the said William Higbie by and with the consent of Mary his wife signifyed by her being a party to & sealing & delivering of these presents hath given granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed and con- firmed and by these presents doth give grand bargain sell alliene enfeoff and confirme unto him the said Nicolas Smith and his heirs & assigns all that certain tract or percel of land with dwelling house & kitchin as also the water grist mill thereon standing and being where the said William Higbie now lives situate in Jamaica in Queens County aforesaid begining at a post at the edge of the boggs near the said mill thence runing along the road or highway north nine degrees west ninteen rods & two thirds of a rodd thence north twenty eight de- grees west forty four rods to a white oak bush standing near the path thence west five degrees south sixty two rods and a half to a black oak bush thence south fourteen degrees east nineteen rods to a chesnut bush thence east seven degrees south thirty two rods to a red oak sapplin thence south six degrees east forty nine rods so runing down to a brook and thence along the said brook as the same runs until it comes up to the said mill mill in- Page 417
cluding the same and then from the said mill to the post or first bounder containing ninteen acres & three quarters of an acre of upland besides the boggs contained within the above limits also one other tract of land lying and being on the easterly side of the path aforsaid & opposite to the premises above discribed with the barn & orchard standing thereon bounded easterly by a brook partly & partly by an old fence standing on Deans Island so called so to ye boggs which formerly belonged to Doctor John Vansolingen southerly by the same boggs westerly by the path abovesd which leads down to the mill afore- said and northerly by a highway which leads to Deans Island afore mentioned, containing within the said
السعر
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boundaries an uncertain quantity of acres be the same more or less also a small slipe of land situate on the southerly side of the mill pond of the said mill containing one acre more or less being bounded southerly by the bogg lots road so called easterly by Samuel Smith Sen. north- erly by the mill pond brook and westerly by the dam of said mill and other land of said William Higbee and also certain priveledges as making a dam drowning of boggs &c. which the said William Higbee lately purchased of Elijah Barton as may fully and at large appear by one certain indenture of bargain & sale under the hand and seal of the said Elijah Barton baring date the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord seventeen hun- dred & forty together with all and singular dwelling houses edeficesses barns stables gardens orchards boulting mills mill utensials mill dams mill pools mill ponds streams banks boggs ditches fences paths ways easements tim- ber trees woods under woods grass grazings convenianties advantages commodities hereditements & appurtenances whatsoever to the said dwelling house mill barn orchard and all and singular other the bargained premises belong- ing or in any wise appertaining and and the reversion Page 418
and reversions remainder and remainders thereof and all the estate right estate title intrest possession property claim and demand whatsoever of them the said William Higbee and Mary his wife or either of them or either of their heirs or assigns of in or to the same or any part percel or member thereof to have & to hold the said dwelling house mill barn orchard several tracts pieces & percels of land & premices with their either & every of their appurtenances unto him the said Nicolas Smith and his heirs to the only use benefit & behof of him the said Nicolas Smith his heirs and assigns forever and the said William Higbee and his heirs the said mentioned hereby granted and above herein described & specified premises with their either & every of their hereditaments and appurtenances unto the said Nicolas Smith his heirs and assigns in his and their quiet & peaceable possession
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against all manner of persons lawfully claiming the same shall and will by these presents forever warrant & defend and the said William Higbee for himselfe his heirs execu- tors and administrators and every of them doth hereby covenant promise grant & agree to and with the said Nicolas Smith his heirs & assigns in manner and form following to wit that he the said William Higbee now at the time of the sealing and delivering of these presents is and standeth lawfully seized of and in the said men- tioned bargained premisses and every part & percel thereof with their either and every of their appurtenances of and in a good sure absolute and indeafeazable estate of inheritance in fee simple without any condition limmi- tation mortgage or use to alter change cease determine or make void the same and so shall hereof be & stand Page 419
seized untill untill the estate shall be well and sufficiently executed upon and by vertue hereof according to these presents and that the said William Higbee is the true lawfull and rightfull owner of the said mentioned bar- gained premises and every part part thereof and so hath good right full power and lawfull and absolute authority to grant and convey the same and every part thereof unto the said Nicolas Smith and to his heirs and assigns in forme aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of these presents who may peaceably and quietly have hold use occupie possess and injoy the same freely and clearly discharged and indemnified from all former and other bargains sales gifts grants feoffments dowers leasses joyntures wills intails judments recognisences mortgages executions rents covenants and all other charges titles troubbles intanglements and in- cumbrances whatsoever had made done suffered or pro- cured by the said William Higbee and Mary his wife or either of them or any other person by their or either of their act consent neglect default or privity-In testi- mony whereof the said parties to these presents inden- tures have hereunto unterchanably set and put their
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