I do hereby certify the aforegoing to be a true coi)y of the original record word & 5th line page 229 being obliterated and or interlined in its stead as in said record. Compared therewith by me.

Lewis A. Scott, Secretory.

State of New York, Office of the Secretary of State.

I hare compared the preceding copy of Letters Patent with the record thereof in this office, in Book Number Seven of Patents at [lage 19") and 1 do hereby certil'y the same to be a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole thereof.

Witness my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the City of Albany, the 1st day of Se/itrni fjcr, one thousand eiyht hundred and eighty four. 1^=^ Anson tJ. Wood

'I'nrBI Dq)nfy Secretary of State.

John llichl)ell who is stated in this Manor-Grant, to Colonel Heathcote (which exjjressly vested Richbell's title in the latter), to have been the purchaser of part of the Manor-laud originally "from ye native Indian proprietors," was one of a fanuly of Ilampsliire-men either in, or from the neighbourhood of the city of Southampton, in that County, in England. They were also merchants in London engaged in trade with America. In the seventeenth century a large trade was carried on between England, the West Indies, and the ' Plantations on the Maine' of -Vmerica. Of this trade the central point in the West Indies was Barbadoes then, as now, a British Island. The voyages were from England to Barbadoes, thence to New York or Boston, and thence back to England. Hence the continual refeience in the accounts aiul letters of that day to the "news from home via Barbardoes." Precisely when John Kichbell left England is not known. He was a merchant in Charlestown, Massachusetts, according to Savage's Genealogical Dictionary in 1648.