Entries, from 1G64 to ItJGo, page 101.

0 Alb. Book of Gen. Entries, page 102.

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104 HISTOKY OF THE

the original grant whereof nnfo Thomas Cornell, father of the said Sarah Bridges they have also registered, until such time as the cause can be tried. "^i

The following particulars are taken from the assize records, in relation to a trial between the two parties, held on the 29th of September, 1665.

Charles Bridges } pjainfiT- Names of Jurors.

and Sarah his wife, i =■ j^^^ Tucker, Foreman,

Thomas Pel!, Defendant. William Wilkins, John Emans,

. - . Charles Morgan, John Forster,

' ' Joseph Bayley, Robert Terry.

" The attorney for the plaintiffs produced a copy of the heads of the trial at the court of sessions held in Jutie last, at Hampstead, he likewise pnts in a declaration alledging the defendant's unjust molestation of the plaintiff"? in their possession of a certain parcel of land called CornelTs neck, lying and being near Westchester, which of right belongs unto them, &c.

To prove their tiile, a grant and patent from the Dutch governor, Kieft, to Thomas Cornell, deceased, father of Sarah, one of the plaintiffs, is produced and read in court, that upon the said grant, Thomas Cornell was in lawful possession of the said lands, and that he was at considerable charges in building, manuring, and planting ye same, that after some years the said Thomas Cornell was driven off" his said lands, by the barbarous violence of the Indians who burnt his house and goods, and destroyed his cattle, which was made appeare by sufficient testimony. That widow Cornell's conveyance of tlie said neck of land to Sarah Bridges, one of the plaintiffs, and her sister, was likewise given in, under which the plaintiffs claime.