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said moiety or equal half part of the said meadows and premises with the appertinences unto the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said grant or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province and registered in our secretary's office aforesaid, bearing date the said 27ih day of June, in the year of our Lord, 1687, and as by the said deed of conveyance, under the hands aud seals of the said George Lockhart and Janet his wife, bearing date 20ih day of February, in the year of our Lord, 1G85, relation being thereunto had respectively may more fully and at large appear ; and whereas Augustine Grayham our surveyor general for our said province of New York, &c., haih by warrant bearing date the lllh of February, in the fourth year of our reign, surveyed and laid out for the said Frederick Philips, a certain small parcel of salt meadows situate and being on the north side of Tappan creek in the county of Orange, beginning at a certain slake set on the east side of the said creek, and from thence run east 37° 40 min. northerly to Hudson's river six chains and ninety links, thence along the said river twelve chains and ninety links, south one degree, westerly to the mouth of iho aforesaid creek, and from thence along the said creek west five degrees thirty-five minutes, northerly eleven chains, thence north twelve degrees, eastwardly two chains and forty links, thence east forty degrees, southerly three chains fortyfive links along the said creek, thence east eleven degrees thirty minutes, southerly two chains twenty links, thence north six degrees twenty-five minutes, seven chains and seventy links, to the stake where the line first began, being bounded on the north-west by a certain parcel of meadow said to belong to Cornelius Claaler, on the east by Hudson's river on the south and west by the said creek, containing in all six acres three roods and eight perches, as by the return of the survey, bearing date the 19ih day of April, in the said fourth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1692, relation being thereunto had may more "fully and at large appear, all which several tracts or parcels of land lying together, and bounded and limited in manner hereafter expressed and mentione'd, (that is to say) all the said tract and parcels of land that are on the east side of Hudson's river are bounded to the northward by a creek or river commonly called by the Indians Kightowank and by the English Knotrus river, and now belonging to Stevanus van Cortlandt, Esq., and so eastward into the woods along the said creek or river two English miles, and from thence upon a direct east line to Bronxes river, and so running southward along the said Bronxes river as it runs until a direct west line cutleih the south side of a neck or island of land at a creek or kill called Papparinemo which divides York island from the main, and so along the said creek or kill as it runs to Hudson's river, which part of the said creek is called by the Indians Shorackhappok, and continues dividing the said York island from the main, and so from thence to the northward alongst Hudson's river uniill it comes into the aforesaid creek or river called by the Indians Kightawank and by the English Knotrus river and the salt meadow ground on the west side of Hudson's river, are bounded and limited as here before is plainly mentioned Vol.11.