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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. Passage 1754 of 1976 257 words

Reviresance thereunto being had may apear unto Josiah Quinby late of Mamaroneck, and from the said Josiah Quinby unto Richard Cornwell by deed bairing date the sixteenth day of June, 1722, and from the said Richard Cornwell to his sons, Edward Burling and Benjamin Cornwell, by deeds bearing date the eighteenth day of May, 1750, which above said right we the said Edward Burling and Benjamin Cornwell doth covenant for ourselves, our heirs, &c, to and with the said Benjamin Smith, his heirs," &c " Doth sell, and convey, and confirm unto the said Benjamin Smith, his heirs," &c, " a certain possession of land containing two hundred acres, situate in the above said patent, and bounded as foloeth : north, by Joseph Sutton's land ; westerly, by

a Copied from original in possession of David W. Smith, Esq. £ Ditto.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER

William Cornwell's land ; southerly, by Benjamin Kipp's land ; easteily, by John Brady's land and Joseph Week's land," &c.

On the ioth of November, 1763, Levinus Clarkson, (merchant.) and Anne, his wife, late of the city of Amsterdam, (now, or late, both residing at Voorburgh, near the Hague,) by David Clarkson, of the City of New- York, their attorney, granted and released to Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, for the sum of ^1025 " all that one full and equal undivided tenth part of the West Patent, granted 14th of Feb., 1 701," &c; containing in all, about 12,300 acres, &c, in the following manner : --

Passages from this source (1976)

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