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of the Committee aforesaid, our said Letters Patent should issue in the names of the several persons mentioned as Grantees in the said last recited petition, and that the Shares of the said Tract of Land directed to remain vested in us as aforesaid be granted by our said Letters Patent, Except the proportion of Benning Went- worth Esquire which since the proceedings on the said first recited petition hath been granted by our Letters Patent under the Seal of our said Province of New York to Lieutenant Thomas Etherington. AND WHEREAS it was afterwards, on the eighth day of April now last past, ordered by our said last mentioned Governor with the advice of our said Council, that certain other persons whose names are mentioned in the said order should be inserted as Grantees in our Letters Patent for the said Tract of Land. IN PURSUANCE whereof, and in obedience to our said Royal Instructions, our commissioners appointed for the setting out all Lands to be granted within our said Province have set out for the several persons mentioned in the said last recited petition and Order, to wit, Charles Shaw, William Sidney, Gabriel H. Ludlow, Richard Hatfield, Richard Morris, William Wickham, Thomas White, Stephen Steele, Samuel Jones, Benjamin Kissam, John Barret, Jasper Drake, Cornelius Van Alen, James Armitage, Jacob Parcel, Anthony Gleen, Gilbert Taylor, John Mckesson, Lewis Graham, Miles Sherbrook, Thomas Ludlow the younger, Carey Ludlow, Patrick Dennis, Thomas Smith, Peter Goelet, Thomas Duncan, and Rudolphus Kitzema. ALL that certain Tract or Parcel of Land lying and being on the West Side of Connecticut River in the County of Cumberland within our Province of New York, BEGINNING at a Black Ash Tree stand- ing on the West Bank of Connecticut River formerly marked with the letters TLSK (from which said Tree the old Fort on the East Side of Connecticut River known by the name of Number Four bears South eighty six Degrees East) and running from the said Ash Tree North eighty Degrees West four hundred and fifty five chains to the Township of Chester; Then along the East Bounds of the said Township of Chester North ten Degrees East five hundred and seventy two chains; Then South seventy eight Degrees East five hundred and fifty seven chains to Connecticut River ; Then Southward down along said River as it winds and turns to the place where this Tract began, containing Twenty
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eight Thousand and two Hundred Acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways, Including a Tract of Five Hundred Acres of Land granted to the aforesaid Lieutenant Thomas Eth- erington, and containing exclusive of the said Tract and of the four Lots of Land hereinafter described the quantity of Twenty Six Thousand four Hundred Acres of Land and the usual allow- ance for Highways. AND ALSO our commissioners have set out to be granted In Trust for the uses and purposes hereinafter men- tioned the following four Lots of Land parts and parcels of the said larger Tract so set out as aforesaid, that is to say, FOR the use of the INCORPORATED SOCIETY for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, ALL that certain Lot or Parcel of Land distinguished by the name of the First Lot and which begins at the South West Corner of the said larger Tract, of which this Lot is a part, and runs thence along the East Bounds of the Town- ship of Chester North ten degrees East Sixty-five chains ; Then South Eighty Degrees East sixty five chains; Then South ten Degrees West sixty five chains to the South Bounds of the said larger Tract, and then along the said South Bounds North Eighty Degrees West sixty five chains to the place where this first Lot began, Containing Four Hundred acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways.
FOR A GLEBE for the use of the Minister of the Gospel in Communion of the Church of England as by law established for the Time being residing on the said larger Tract. ALL that certain Lot or parcel of Land distinguished by the name of the Second Lot and which begins in the East Bounds of the Township of Chester at the Northwest corner of the said First Lot and runs thence along the said East Bounds of the said Township of Chester North ten Degrees East sixty five chains ; Then South Eighty Degrees East sixty five chains; Then South ten Degrees West sixty five chains to the North Bounds of the said First Lot, and then along the said North Bounds North Eighty Degrees West Sixty five chains to the place where this Second Lot began, Containing Four Hundred acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways.
For the first settled Minister of the Gospel on the said larger Tract, ALL that certain Lot or parcel of Land distinguished by
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the name of the Third Lot, and which begins in the East Bounds of the Township of Chester at the Northwest corner of the said Second Lot and runs thence along the said East Bounds of the said Township of Chester North ten Degrees East sixty five chains ; Then South Eighty Degrees East sixty five chains ; Then South ten Degrees West sixty five chains to the North Bounds of the said second Lot, then along the said North Bounds North Eighty Degrees West sixty five chains to the place where this Lot. began, Containing Four Hundred acres of Land and the usual al- lowance for Highways. AND for the use of a schoolmaster resid- ing on the said larger Tract, ALL that certain Lot and parcel of Land distinguished by the name of the Fourth Lot, and which begins in the East Bounds of the Township of Chester at the North West Corner of the said third Lot, and runs thence along the said East Bounds of the said Township of Chester North ten East sixteen chains and twenty links ; Then South Eighty Degrees East sixty five chains ; Then South ten Degrees West sixteen chains and twenty links, to the North Bounds of the said third Lot, and then along the said North Bounds North Eighty Degrees. West sixty five chains to the place where this fourth Lot began, Containing one Hundred acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways.
AND IN SETTING OUT the said larger Tract and the several Lots and parcels of Land last described, our said Commissioners have had regard to the profitable and unprofitable acres, and have taken care that the Length of any of them doth not ex- tend along the Banks of any River otherwise than is conform- able to our said Royal Instructions as by a certificate thereof, under their Hands bearing date the twenty fifth day of April now last past and entered on record in our Secretary's Office for our said Province of New York may more fully appear. WHICH said Tract of Twenty Eight Thousand and two Hundred acres Land and the usual allowance for Highways so set out as aforesaid ac- cording to our said Royal Instructions We being willing to grant to the said Richard Morris and John Barrett and the other persons mentioned in the last recited petition and order, their Heirs and Assigns forever (Except as is hereinafter excepted) with the several powers and privileges, and to and upon the several and
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respective use and uses, Trusts Intents and Purposes, Limitations and appointments, and under the several Reservations, Exceptions, Provisoes and Conditions, hereinafter expressed, limited, declared and appointed of and concerning the same and every part and parcel thereof respectively. KNOW YE that of our especial Grace, certain knowledge and meer motion, we have given, granted ratified and confirmed, and Do by these presents for us, our Heirs and Successors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto them the said Charles Shaw, William Sidney, Gabriel H. Ludlow, Richard Hat- field, Richard Morris, William Wickham, Thomas White, Stephen Steel, Samuel Jones, Benjamin Kissam, John Barret, Jasper Drake, Cornelius Van Alen, James Armitage, Jacob Parcel, Anthony Gleen, Gilbert Taylor, John McKesson, Lewis Grahanı, Miles Sherbrook, Thomas Ludlow the Younger, Carey Ludlow, Patrick Dennis, Thomas Smith, Peter Goelet, Thomas Duncan and Rudolphus Kitzema, their Heirs and Assigns forever, ALL that the aforesaid large Tract or Parcel of Land, set out, abutted, bounded and described by our said Commissioners in Manner and Form as above mentioned (Except thereout as hereafter is ex- cepted) and including all those the aforementioned several smaller Tracts or Lots of Land severally and respectively set out by our said Commissioners as parts and parcels of the same large Tract, For the use of the Incorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. For a Glebe for the use of the Minister of the Gospel in Communion of the Church of England as by law established. For the first settled Minister of the Gospel on the said larger Tract, and for the use of a schoolmaster residing on said larger Tract ; TOGETHER with all and singular the Tene- ments, Hereditaments, Emoluments and appurtenances to the same and every part and parcel thereof belonging or appertaining ; AND also all our Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Possession, Claim and Demand whatsoever of, in and to the same Lands and Prem- ises hereby granted and every part and parcel thereof. AND the Reversion and Reversions, Remainder and Remainders, Rents, Issues and Profits thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof : EXCEPT and always reserved out of this our present Grant All that the aforesaid certain Tract or parcel of Land containing Five Hundred acres herein before mentioned to be granted unto Lieu-
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tenant Thomas Etherington, together with all and every the appurtenances thereunto belonging, the same Tract or parcel of Land being included within the Bounds and Limits of the larger Tract of Twenty Eight Thousand and two Hundred acres of Land herein before described, and within the Township by these presents herein after constituted. AND ALSO EXCEPT and always reserved out of this our present Grant unto us, our Heirs and Successors, All Mines of Gold and Silver, and also all white or other sorts of Pine Trees fit for Masts of the Growth of Twenty-four Inches Diameter and upwards at twelve inches from the Earth for Masts for the Royal Navy of us, our Heirs and Successors. To HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the said Lands, Tenements, Here- ditaments and premises by these presents granted ratified and confirmed, and every part and parcel thereof, with their and every of their Appurtenances (Except as hereinbefore excepted) unto them our Grantees above mentioned, their Heirs and Assigns for- ever, To for and upon the several and respective Use and Uses, Trusts, Intents and Purposes hereinafter expressed, limited, de- clared and appointed of and concerning the same and every part and parcel thereof respectively, and to and for no other Use or Uses, Intent or Purposes whatsoever, that is to say, As FOR AND CONCERNING ALL that the before mentioned small Tract, Lot or parcel of Land so set out for the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts as aforesaid being part or parcel of the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted ratified and confirmed and within the Township by these presents hereinafter constituted and every part and parcel of the same Lot of Land with the appurtenances to the same belonging (Except as is herein before excepted) to and for the only proper and separate use and behoof of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts above mentioned and their Succes- sors forever, and to and for no other Use or Uses, Intent or Pur- pose whatsoever. AND AS FOR AND CONCERNING ALL that the before mentioned small Tract, Lot or Parcel of Land so set out as and for a Glebe for the use of a Minister of the Gospel in Com- munion of the Church of England as by law established, being part and parcel of the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted, ratified and confirmed, and within the Township by these
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presents herein after constituted and every part and parcel of the same Lot of Land with the appurtenances to the same belonging (Except as is herein before excepted) In Trust as and for a Glebe for ever, To and for the only proper and separate Use Benefit and Behoof of the first Minister of the Gospel in Communion of the Church of England as by law established having the cure of Souls and residing on the said Tract of Land hereby granted, and his Successors for ever Ministers as aforesaid for the Time being re- siding as aforesaid, and to and for no other Use or Uses Intent or purpose whatsoever. AND AS FOR AND CONCERNING ALL that the before mentioned small Tract, Lot or parcel of Land so set out for the first settled Minister on the said Tract of Land hereby granted, the same Lot or parcel of Land being part and parcel of the same Tract hereby granted, ratified and confirmed and within the Township by these presents herein after constituted and every part and parcel of the same Lot of Land with the appurtenances to the same belonging (Except as herein before excepted) IN TRUST to and for the sole, proper and separate Use, Benefit and Behoof of the first settled Minister of the Gospel that shall be settled and Officiating on the said Tract of Land hereby granted his Heirs and Assigns for ever. AND IN TRUST also that our said Grantees their Heirs or Assigns shall well and truly by good and sufficient Assurances in the Law convey the same last mentioned small Tract or Lot of Land with the appurtenances to such Min- ister of the Gospel as shall be first settled and officiating as afore- said his Heirs and Assigns forever in Fee simple as soon as may be after such Minister shall be settled and officiating as aforesaid, and to or for no other Use or Uses, Intent or purpose whatsoever. AND AS FOR AND CONCERNING ALL that other small Tract, Lot or parcel of Land so set out for the use of a schoolmaster, being also part and parcel of the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted, ratified and confirmed, and within the Township by these presents herein after constituted and every part and parcel of the same Lot of Land with the appurtenances to the same belonging (Except as is herein before excepted ) IN TRUST for ever to and for the sole and separate Use, Benefit and Behoof of the first public schoolmaster of the Township by these presents herein after constituted and erected officiating in the same Township and
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his Successors Schoolmasters as aforesaid for ever, and to and for no other Use or Uses, Intent or Purpose whatsoever. AND AS FOR AND CONCERNING ALL the Rest, Residue and Remainder of the said Tract of Land, Tenements, Hereditaments and Premises hereby granted, ratified and confirmed To HAVE AND TO HOLD one full and equal Twenty Seventh Part (The whole into Twenty seven equal parts to be divided) of the said Rest, Residue and Remainder and every part and parcel thereof, with all and every the appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise apper- taining (Except as herein before excepted) unto each of them the said Charles Shaw, William Sidney, Gabriel H. Ludlow, Richard Hatfield, Richard Morris, William Wickham, Thomas White, Stephen Steel, Samuel Jones. Benjamin Kissam, John Barret, Jasper Drake, Cornelius Van Alen, James Armitage, Jacob Parcel, Anthony Gleen, Gilbert Taylor, John Mckesson, Lewis Graham, Miles Sherbrook, Thomas Ludlow the Younger, Carey Ludlow, Patrick Dennis, Thomas Smith, Peter Goelet, Thomas Duncan and Rudolphus Kitzema, their Heirs and Assigns respec- tively. To their only proper and separate Use and Behoof re- spectively forever, as Tenants in common and not as Joint Tenants, and to and for no other Use or Uses, Intent or purpose whatsoever. ALL and singular the said Tract of Land and Premises hereby granted, and every part and parcel thereof, TO BE HOLDEN of us, our Heirs and Successors. in free and common Socage as of our Manor of East Greenwich in our County of Kent within our Kingdom of Great Britain. YIELDING, Rendering and paying therefore yearly and every year forever unto us, our Heirs and Successors at our Custom House in our City of New York in our said Province of New York unto our or their Collector or Receiver General there for the time being on the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary commonly called Lady Day, the yearly Rent of Two Shillings and six pence Sterling for each and every Hundred acres of the above granted Lands, and so in proportion for any lesser quantity thereof, saving and except for such part of the said Land allowed for Highways as above mentioned, in Lieu and stead of all other Rents, Services, Dues, Duties and Demands whatsoever for the hereby granted Lands and Premises or any part thereof. AND WE DO of our especial
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Grace, certain Knowledge and meer Motion, create, erect and con- stitute the said large Tract containing Twenty Eight Thousand and two Hundred acres of Land herein before mentioned and every part and parcel thereof a Township ever hereafter to be, continue and remain, and by the name of SPRINGFIELD forever hereafter to be called and known. AND for the better and more easily carrying on and managing the public affairs and Business of the said Township, our Royal Will and Pleasure is, and we do hereby for us, our Heirs and Successors, give and grant to the inhabitants of the said Township, all the Powers, Authorities, Privileges and Advantages heretofore given and granted to or legally enjoyed by all any or either our other Townships within our said Province of New York. AND we also ordain and estab- lish that there shall be for ever hereafter in the said Township, two Assessors, one Treasurer, Two Overseers of the Highways, Two Overseers of the Poor, One Collector and four Constables elected and chosen out of the inhabitants of the said Township yearly and every year on the third Tuesday in May, at the most public place in the said Township by the Majority of the Free- holders thereof, then and there met and assembled for that pur- pose. HEREBY Declaring that wheresoever the first election in the said Township shall be held, the future Elections shall forever thereafter be held in the same place as near as may be ; AND Giving and Granting to the said Officers so chosen Power and Authority to exercise their said several and respective Offices during one whole year from such Election, and until others are legally chosen and elected in their Room and Stead, as fully and amply as any the like Officers have or legally may use or exercise their offices in our said Province of New York. AND in case any or either of the said Officers of the said Township should die or remove from the said Township before the Time of their Annual service shall be expired, or refuse to act in the offices for which they shall respectively be chosen, then our Royal Will and Pleasure further is, and we do. hereby direct ordain and require the Freeholders of the said Township to meet at the place where the annual Election shall be held for said Township and choose other or others of the inhabitants of the said Township in the place and Stead of him or them so Dying, Removing or Refusing
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to Act, within Forty Days next after such contingency. AND to prevent any undue Election in this case, we do hereby ordain and require that upon every vacancy in the office of Assessors, the Treas- urer, and in either of the other offices, the Assessors of the said Township shall, within ten days next after any such vacancy first happens, appoint the Day for Election, and give public notice thereof in writing under his or their Hands by affixing such notice on the Church Door or other most public place in the said Township, at the least, ten Days before the Day appointed for such Election : And in Default thereof we do hereby Require the officer or officers of the said Township, or the Survivors of them who in the order they are herein before mentioned shall next succeed him or them so making Default, within ten Days next after such Default to appoint the Day for such Election and give notice thereof as aforesaid, HEREBY Giving and Granting, that such person or persons as shall be so chosen by the Majority of such of the Freeholders of said Township as shall meet in manner hereby directed shall have, hold, exercise and enjoy the office or offices to which he or they shall be so elected and chosen from the time of such Election until the third Tuesday in May then next following, and until other or others be legally chosen in his or their place and stead as fully as the person or persons in whose place he or they shall be chosen might or would have done by virtue of these presents. AND we do hereby will and direct that this method shall for ever hereafter be used for the filling up all vacancies that shall happen in any or either of the said offices be- tween the Annual Elections above directed. . PROVIDED always and upon condition nevertheless that if our said Grantees, their Heirs or Assigns, or some or one of them shall not within three years next after the Date of this our present Grant, settle on the said Tract of Land, hereby granted so many families as may amount to one family for every Thousand acres of the same Tract; OR if they, our said Grantees, their or one of their Heirs or Assigns, shall not also within three years, to be computed as aforesaid, plant and effectually cultivate, at the least, three acres for every Fifty Acres of such of the hereby granted Lands as are capable of cultivation ; OR if they our said Grantees, or any of them, their or any of their Heirs or Assigns, or any other person or persons, by
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their or any of their Privity, Consent, or Procurement, shall fell cut down, or otherwise destroy any of the Pine Trees by these presents reserved to us, our Heirs and Successors, or hereby in- tended so to be, without the Royal Licence of us, our Heirs or Successors, for so doing first had and obtained, that then and in any of these cases, this our present Grant and every thing herein contained shall cease and be absolutely void, and the Lands and Premises hereby granted shall revert to us and vest in us, our Heirs and Successors, as if this our present Grant had not been made, anything herein before contained to the contrary notwith- standing.
PROVIDED further and upon condition also nevertheless, and we do hereby for us, our Heirs and Successors, direct and appoint that this our present Grant shall be registered and entered on Record within six months from the Date thereof, in our Secre- tary's office in our City of New York in our said Province of New York in one of the Books of Patents there remaining ; And that a Docquet thereof shall be also entered in our Auditor's Office there for our said Province of New York and that in De- fault thereof this our present Grant shall be void and of none ef- fect, anything before in these presents contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
AND WE DO moreover of our especial Grace, certain knowl- edge and meer motion, consent and agree, that this our present Grant being registered and recorded and a Docquet thereof made as before directed and appointed, shall be good and effectual in the Law to all Intents, constructions and purposes whatsoever against us, our Heirs and Successors, notwithstanding misrecit- ing, misbounding, misnaming, or other Imperfection or omission of, in or in any wise concerning the above granted or hereby men- tioned or intended to be granted Lands, Tenements, Heredita- ments and Premises or any part thereof. IN TESTIMONY whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of the Province of New York to be hereunto affixed.
WITNESS our said trusty and well beloved WILLIAM TRYON Esquire, our said Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over our said Province of New York and the Territories depend- ing thereon in America, Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the
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same, at our Fort in our City of New York, the Twenty fifth Day of May in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hun- dred and Seventy two, and of our Reign the Twelfth.
First Skin line the Twenty fourth the word Persons and line the Forty seventh the word eighty, wrote on Rasures: And second Skin line the fifth the word AS, line the Thirty eighth the word SHALL and line the Forty first the word ORDAIN, all interlines. WM. [SEAL] TRYON. 1st June, 1772, Page 25, No. 16.
NEW YORK SECRETARY'S OFFICE 1st June 1772.
The within Letters Patent are recorded in this Office in Lib: Patents No. 16 Page 250 &c.
GEO BANYAR, D. Secry
NEW YORK AUDITOR GENERAL'S OFFICE 2nd June 1772. The within Letters Patent are Docquetted in this Office. GEO BANYAR, Depy Aud.
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EARLY RECORDS.
The first records of town meetings in Springfield, previous to 1786, were kept on sheets of paper, which are much worn, and some of them evidently have been lost. These records, so far as preserved, are as follows :
PROVINCE OF NEW YORK NoţK{
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
At a legal town meeting, held at the house of Simon Stevens, on the first Tuesday in April, on the fourth day, 1769.
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