for ouer unto the forenamed propriators of Bedford and doe acknowledge to have received full satisfaction for the said land and middow from the propriators of the town of Bedford and doe promise and engadge that the propriators of Bedford shall quietly poses and enjoy the same land and middow without molestationby us or any of ours for euer, as witnes our hands in Bedford the second day of may, one thousand six hundred eighty and three: thus under written : --
This bill of sale signed and delivered) . His
in the presence of us. > KATO O NAH.
JOHN GREEN, mark- JOHN BATES, His NICHOLAS WEBSTER, PA P PIAG.
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This above bill of sale is acknowledged by the grantors, each of them before me.
Bedford, the 2d day of) ABRAHAM AMBLER,
May, 1683. > Comisiouated.
This bill of seall is entred in the publick records of Bedford ; p : 115.
By me, ZACHARIAH ROBERTS, Recorder.
May 1st, 1702.
By the settlement of the colonial boundaries, November, 1664, Bedford fell within the jurisdiction of Connecticut, the line between the two colonies commencing from the east point of Mamaroneck River, where the fresh water falls into the salt at high water mark, north northwest to the line of Massachusetts. On the ground that this decision was erroneous, a further agreement was concluded at New York, 2Sth of October, 1683, between the governor of Connecticut and certain persons appointed to act with him, by which it was stipulated that the line between New York and Connecticut should begin at Byram River,