On the 29th day of March, 1701, Samuel Quinby, of the West Patent of North Castle, for the sum of three pounds, sold Benjamin Smith, of the said Patent, "all that certain piece of land containing three quarters of an acre, or thereabouts, bounded as followeth: Beginning at the brook on the west side of the high ridge, near the house where Nathaniel Smith lives, and running along the west side of the road northward to a heap of stones, thence eastward and southward along the partition fence, and as the same stands to the said brook, then up said brook to where it began to have and to hold," &c.6 .

Upon the 28th day of September, 1725. Richard Ogden, of Rye, /or the sum of six pounds, sold to Russell Wood, of North Castle, "a parcel of land," that is to say, "twelve acres of undivided land, &c, within a tract of land commonly called Ffanconier's Purchase, to be laid out to my right when ye said lands shall be divided," &c.e

On the 25th day of October, 1737, Thomas Hutchings, and Penelope, his wife, of North Castle, for the sum of ^262 conveyed to Benjamin Smith, of the same place, " a certain tract or parcel of land situate, lya See Poundridge.

b Copied from original in possession of David W. Smith.

c Copied from original in possession of David W. Smith, Esq., of Kensico.

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