Sarah Bridges, my well beloved brother-in-law, John Burroughs, and Ralph Hunt, overseers of tliis my last will and teastament, likewise to be assistants to ray execatrix in all cases and difficulties ; and this I do o^vne aa my owne act and deed, to all true intents and meanings, and due furthermore ratify and confirm it as my owne act and deed by ye setting to my hand and seal, the day and year underwitten. EDWARD JESSUP.

August tbe IGlh, 166G.

Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of us, witnesses,

wlli-ia-v gouldstone,

John Richardson,

Mark of X Richard Horton.""

Upon the 20th of June, 1668, Robert Beacham and Elizabeth, the wife formerly of Edward Jessup, of Westchester, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, on Long Island, did fully and absolutely sell and "make over unto Thomas Hunt, of Westchester, aforesaid, all those hoeing lands and accomodations that were formerly Edward Jessup's, within the bounds and limits of the aforesaid Westchester, that the said Edward Jessup and John Richardson purchased together, and procured patents for from the Plon. Col. Richard Nicolls," &c.

John Richardson, the sur\'i\-ing patentee, appears to have united with Thomas Hunt, the follo\ving year, in making an equal division of these lands; for, on the 12th of August, 1669, occurs the following report of the commissioners : --

"We whose names are underwritten being made choice of by John Richardson and Thomas Hunt, bolhe inhabiting in Westchester, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, to make an eqiial division of a grant of land formerly purchased of the Indian proprietors by Edward Jessup and John Richardson, being butted and bounded by patent I say all those uplands and meadows wiihin that purchase, save some upland and meadows, which was formerly divided by the forementioned porsotis, I^ldward Jessup and John Richardson, have been committed unto us, William Ilayden, bamuel Drake, Thomas La^Tcnce and Jonathan Hazard. t'> make an c(iual division, &c., &c.