A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I
Bounded on the east by a line that runs from said meadow north-westerly by marked trees, to a certain black oak tree standing a little below the road, marked on four sides, and from thence to run due north four miles and a half, more or less, and from the north side of the said west line, ending at Bronckes's river, and from thence to run easterly till it meets with the north end of the said eastermo^;t bounds, together with all and singular the islands and islets before the said tract of land lying and being in the sound and salt water, with all the harbors, creeks, rivers, rivuleits, runns, waters, lakes, meadows, ponds, marshes, salt and fresh, swamps, soils, timber, trees, pastures, feedings, enof St. John the Baptist,) each Huguenot paid his proportion towards its purchase. This ceremony was last performed in a house which occupied the site of Mr. James Morgan's residence in Ejistchester. A feast invariably followed the presentation.
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closures, fields, quarries, mines, minerals, (silver and gold mines only excepted) fishing, huniing, fowling, hawking, and also all the messuages, houses, tenements, barns, mills, mill dams, as they were at the time of the ensealing and delivery of the articles of agreement of sale for said land, hearittg dale the second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty-seven. As relation being thereto had doih more fully and at large appear, as also the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders of a certain lott of land and meadow, now in the tenure and occupation of John Jefferd, and Olive his wife, being part of the aforesaid six thousand acres of land, with all the privileges belonging thereto or any wise appertaining, or therewith now used, occupied and enjoyed, as all the right, title, interest, reversion, remainder, property, claime, and demand whatsoever, of, in, and to the same, and any part thereof, as is hereafter expressed.