History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
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. As relation being thereto had, doth more fully and at large appear, as also the revi'i-sion and reversions, remainder and remainders of a certain lott of land and meadow novs' in the tenure and occupation of John Jefferd and Olive, his wife, being part of the aforesaid six thousand acres »f land, with all the privileges belonging thereto, or in any wise appertaining or therewith now used, occupied and enjoyed, as all the right, title, interest, reversion, remainder, property, clainie and demand whatsoever, of, iu, and to the same, ami any part thereof as hereafter expressed.