Isaacs his heirs or assigns shall see good and convenient without any lett or hindrance or molestation whatsoever from the said James and Anne, James or Elizabeth or from either of us our heirs or from any other person or persons who acting by authority by from or under us or either of us or them. In witness whereof we have hereunto respectively set our hands and seals this twenty-first day of June, A.D. 1788.

Syned sealed and delivered Joanna Brown,

in presence of us Ann Raymond,

JOSIAH SCOFIKLD, JAMES B. KeTCHUM,

Hkxry Suofield. Elizabeth A. Keiuiicm.*

a White Plains Rcc., voL K., p. 49G.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

On the 19th of September, 1798, Joanna Brown of the Town of Salem, bequeathed " to her sister Ann Raymond the use and improvement of all her lands and tenements, which I dye seised of whether in possession, reversion or remainder during her natural life ; and at the decease of my sister Ann R., I give and devise to my niece Betsy Ann Ketchum, the use and improvement of the same lands, &c," "and at her decease or marriage," &c, then the reversion or remainder to my nephew Samuel B. Isaacs, and to his heirs and assigns forever in fee, simple, &c. This will was proved May 7th, 1799.* Samuel Brown Isaacs, Esq., like his uncle, was for many years a Justice of the Peace, in Lower or South Salem, and also a warm supporter of the Church. For some time services were held in his house* (the old Brown mansion) after the Church edifice had been torn down in 1788, and the land seized -- until the year of his death, as proprietor of his uncle James Brown's estate, he exercised acts of ownership in the " Loiver Parsonage Lands" claiming he had as much right to cut timber thereon as the pretended owners themselves.