In the year 1675, John Pell of Ann-hooks neck, binds and makes over unto John Burr of Fairfield, his heirs and assignees, (fcc, all his meadow lying in Fairfield, on the Mill river, d:c.

The llih of December, 1685, John Pell, Esq., by conveyance made over to John Smith of the town of Bruckland, Great Minne-

* Vaughan's Protectorate of Cromwell, vol. ii. 483-5. b Probate Rec. Fairfield, Co. 1G65-75, p. 49.

fords Island, sometimes called Mulberry Island, which lies situate opposite to Ann-hooks neck, formerly in possession of William Pate and Robert Godfrey.

Signal ure and seal of John Pell and Rachel his wife.

Upon the 20th of October, 1687, the whole manor was confirmed by letters patent under the great seal of the province of New York, by I'homas Dongan, lieutenant governor of the same in the following manner :

Thomas Dongan, Captain General and Governor-in- chief in and over the province of New Yorke, and the territories depending thereon in America, uDder his most sacred Majesty, James the Second, by the grace of God Kinge of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, &c., -- to all to wiiom these presents shall come, sendeth greeting : Whereas, Richard Nicolis, Esq., late governor of this province, by his certaine deed in writing, under his hand and seale, bearing date the sixth day of October, in the eighteenth year of the reigne of our late sovereigne lord, Charles the Second, by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Kinge, defender of the faith, &c., and in ihe yeare of our Lord God one thousand six hundred sixty and six -- did give, grant, confirme and rattefye, by virtue of the commission and authoritye unto him given by his (then) royal highness, James, Duke of Yorke, &c., (his now Majesty,) upon whome, by lawful grant and pattent from his (then) Majesty, the propriety and government of that part of the maine land, as well of Long Island and all the islands adjacent.