This Indenture, made the tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three, between Levinus Clarkson, late of the city of Amsterdam, merchant, and Anne Clarkson, late of the same place, spinster, (now, or late, both residing at Voorburgh, near the Hague,) by David Clarkson, of the City of New York, merchant, their attorney of the first part, and Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton of the County of West Chester in the Province of New York, yeomen, and their associates of the second part ; Whereas, His most gracious majesty, King William the Third, of glorious memory, by his letters patent under the great seal of the Province of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, in the fourteenth year of his reign, granted unto Robert Waters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcste, Matthew Clarkson, John Chollwell, Richard Slater, Lancaster S3Tms, Robert Lurting and Barne Cosens, and to their heirs and assigns forever, All that, a certain Tract of Land, in the County of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Cortlandt ; easterly, with Bedford line of three miles square, the White Field and Byram River ; southerly, by the laud of John Harrison Rye, line Stretching to Byram River aforesaid, and the White Plains ; and westerly by Brunk's River and the manor of Philipsburgh, (excepting out of the bounds aforesaid all the land within Richbell's Patents.) And, wlwrcas the said Levinus and Anne Clarkson are entitled to one-tenth part of the lands in and by the said Letters Patent granted ; and uhercas the said Levinus Clarkson and Anne Clarkson, by their certain Letter, or Power of Attorney under their hands and seals, duly executed, bearing date the ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand and seven hundred and fifty-four, made, constituted, ordained and appointed their Nephews, Samuel Hazard and Matthew Clarkson, both of the City of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, merchants ; and Freeman Clarkson and the said David Clarkson, both of the city of New York, aforesaid, merchants, them, and each of them, their and each of their true, sufficient and lawful attorney and aUornies, jointly and severally, for them, and each of them, and in their name or names, to enter and make any entry or entrys into all and singular their and each of their lands, tenements and hereditaments, situate, lying or being in the respective counties of West Chester, Orange and Ulster, in the Province of New York, aforesaid, or elsewhere, and also for them and in their