To Have and to Hold all and singular the said one full and equal undivided Tenth Part, and all and every, and any other or greater Part, Share or Proportion of the said Tract of

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Land, Hereditaments and Premises above mentioned, meant or intended to be hereby granted and released, and every Part and Parcel thereof, with the Appurtenances, (except as before is excepted,) unto the said Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, and their Associates, their Heirs and Assigns, to the only proper use and behoof of the said Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, and their Associates and their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, as Tenants in common, and not as Joint-tenants. And, Whereas seven thousand acres of the above Tract of Land is now supposed to be in the possession of the Inhabitants of Bedford new purchase, and is above excepted out of this Release, and the Parties to these Presents of the Second Part have before purchased the Rights of John Cholwell and Robert Waters, and one-half of the Right of Richard Slater, three of the said Patentees, supposed to contain Eight thousand, acres more, and of some of the other Patentees or others, claiming under them four thousand seven hundred acres more. No>c, tlierefore, the said Levinus Clarkson and Anne Clarkson, by the said David Clarkson, their Attorney for themselves and their Heirs, the said one full and equal undivided Tenth Part of tbe remaining Part of the said Tract of Land and Premises in and by the said Letters Patent granted, supposed to contain about twelve thousand, three hundred acres, be it more or less, against them, the said Levinus Clarkson and Anne Clarkson, and their ueirs, and against all and every other Person and Persons whomsoever claiming by, from or under them, or either of them, or under their Rather, Matthew Clarkson, one of the said Patentees to the said Parties of the second part, and to their respective Heirs and Assigns forever, shall, and will warrant and forever defend by these Presents.