Company by theyr several Commissions under theyr hands m Kieft sufficient power and authorities for the general rule and seales to give and grant unto me y

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& gouvernment of this Prouince called the New Netherlands, & likewise for y e settling of townes, collonies, plantations, disposing of y e land within this prouince, as by e said Commissions more att. y

large doth

and maye appeare, Now Know yee whomsoever these Presents may any ways concerne

that I, William Kieft, Gouvernor General! of this Prouince

by vertue of y e authoritie abovesaid & with y e aduice & consent of y e Councell of State heere established have given and graunted & by

& confirme unto y e Honoured Lady Deborah Moody, S Hennry Moody Barronett, Ensign George Baxter & Sergeant James Hubbard theyr associates, heyres,

virtue of these presents doe give grant

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executors, administrators, successours, assignes, or any they shall join in association with them, a e

certaine, quantitie or p'cel of Land, together with all y hauens, harbours, rivers, creeks, woodland, marshes, and all other appurtenances thereunto belonging, lyeing k being uppon & about y e Westernmost parte of Longe Island & beginning at the mouth of a Creeke adjacent to Coneyne Island & being bounded one y e westwards parte thereof with y e land appertaining to Anthony Johnson & Rob 1 Penoyer & soe to run as farre as the westernmost part of a certain pond in an ould Indian field on the