Sarah Bridges, my well beloved brother-in law, John Burroughs, and Ralph Hunt, overseers of this my last will and testament, likewise to be assistants to my executrix in all cases and difficulties, and this I do owne as my owne act and deed, to all true intents and meanings, and doe furthermore ratify and confirm it as my owne act and deed by ye settin'^ to my hand and seal, the day and year underwritten.

August the IGth, 1666.

P^DWiKD Jessup.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us, witnesses, WilFm Gouldstone, John Richardson, mark of Richard Horton. ><I

Upon the 20lh of June, 1608, Robert Beacham and Elizabeth

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the wife formerly of Edward Jessiip of Westchester, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on Long Island, did fully and absolutely sell and " make over unto Thomas Hunt of Westchester aforesaid all those hoeing lands and accommodations that were formerly Edward Jessup's, within the bounds and limits of the aforesaid Westchester, that the said Edward Jessup and John Richardson purchased together and procured patents for from the Hon. Col. Richard Nicolls," &c.

John Richardson, the surviving patentee, appears lo have united with Thomas Hunt the following year in making an equal division of these lands, for on the 12th of August, 1669, occurs the following report of the commissioners.

'• We whose names are underwritten being made choice of by John Richardson and Thomas Hunt, bothe inhabiting in Westchester, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, to mal.e an equal division of a grant of land formerly purchased of the Indian proprietors by Edward Jessup and John Richardson, being butted and bounded by patent I say all those uplands and meadows within that purchase, save some upland and meadows, which was formerly divided by the forementioned persons, Edward Jessup and John Richardson, have been committed unto us, William Hayden, Samuel Drake, Thomas Lawrence and Jonathan Hazard, to make an equal division, &c., &c.