c The timbers of the old house are still preserved in the carriage shed, most of therfi measure 13)£ inches by 15 inches, The ancient door step is still retained in front of the present house, and the famous pear tree nearly two hundred years old is yet standing and bears fruit yearly. . .

d The following entrv occurs in the famtlv Bible of the Isaacs', (evidently written in the hand of Sam'I B. Isaacs Esq.) "Mv cL-ar mother, Mary Isaacs, departed this life, Nov. 26, lsoi." The book itself is entitled. " The New Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, translated out of the original Greek, etc." New York : stereotyped and printed by 1). & G. Bruce, 27 \\ Uliuni Su, 1815.

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QUIT CLAIM OF JOANNA BROWN, ANN RAYMOND, JAMES BROWN KETCHUM AND ELIZABETH ANN KETCIIUM, TO SAM'L B. ISAACS, ESQ., OF LOWER SALEM.

Know all men by these presents that we James Brown and Anne Raymond of Lower Salem in the County of West Chester and State of New York and James Brown Kctchum and Elizabeth Ann Kctchum of the city and County of New York ami said State being part of thcheirsof the estate of James Brown Esq late of Salem deceased having actually agreed and consented to make a division of said deceased real estate with all the heirs to said estate, and whereas Samuel B. Isaacs of said Lower Salem hath obtained from his mother and his near relatives a considerable share or right in the estate of said deceased and whereas the whole of said heirs have mutually consented that Abijah Gilbert Esq and Mr. Benjamin Smith should make a division of the real estate of said Deceased to any among the whole of the heirs thereof who have sett off and divided to said Samuel B.