Know Yee that the said John I'ell and Rachel, his wife, for and in consideration of the stun of sixteen hunilred anil seventy-five {>ounds and twenty-five shillings sterling, current silver money of this jiroviuce, to him in hand [laid and secured to be paid at the or before the ensealing and the delivery thereof by Jacob Leisler, of the city of Now York, Merchant, the receipt whereof they, the said John Pell and Rachel, his wife, do thereby acknowledge themselves to lie fully i Siilisfied and contented, and thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof do hereby freely and clearly acipiit and Fxhonerate and discharge the Stkid Jacob Leisler, his heirs, e-xecutors, administrators and every of them, by thest; presents have granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said Jacob Leisler, his heirs and assignees, all the tract of land lying and being within said Manor of Pelham, containing sLx thousand acres of land and also one hundred

' DiHv Hist. N. Y., vol. ii. p. 304. - Doc. Hist. N. Y., Tul. iii. p. 9:26.

the sonth-eiuiterly by the Sound and Salt Water, and to run eiust-ncu therly to a certain piece of salt meadow lying at the sjilt creek which runneth up to Cedar Tree brook, or Gravelly brook, and is the bounds to Southern. Bounded on the east by a line that runs from said meadow north westerly by marked trees, to a certain black oak tree standing a little below the road, marked on four sides, and from thence to run due north four miles and a half, more or less, and from the north side of the said west line, ending at Broncke's river, and from thence to run easterly till it meets with the north end of the said eastern most boiinils, together with all and singular the islands and the islets before the said tract of land lying and being in the sound and sjilt water, with all the harbors, creeks, rivers, rivulets, runs, waters, lakes, meadows, ponds, marshes, salt and fresh, swamps, soils, timber, trees, pastures, feedings, eiu losures, fields, cpiarriefi, mines, minerals (silver and gold mines only excepted), fishing, hunting, fowling, hawking and also the messuages, houses, tenements, barns, mills, mill dams, as they were at the time of the ensealing and delivery of the articles of agreement of sale for siiid land, bearing clnte the secoiul day of .Inly, in the year of onr Lord one thousand six hundred and eighty seven.