The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
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. Isaacs the whole of the said deceased died seized of lying on the north side of the road or highway leading from Ridgefield to Bedford containing one hundred and nine acres two rods and twenty-one rods together with the dwelling house standing thereon and also one hundred and twenty-six rods of land lying on the south side of said road opposite dwelling house being eight rods in width from north to south and seventeen rods in length from East to West together with the barn yard, garden, well and well yard, in the lane. Now know ye this we the said Joanna, Anne, James and Elizabeth do by these presents approve of and ratify said division made as above, to said Samuel B; Isaacs and that we do each of us for the consideration of saidSamael B. Isaacs, having obtained aright as a heir in said deceased estate also for the love and respect and good will we have for him, also for the further consideration of the sum of £20 New York money and also for divers other good and valuable considerations all which we have fully received of the said Samuel B.