"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. As first we find it necessary

a Surrogates office, N. T., -wiUs administrations. No. 1, iCCo to 16S3, p. 31.

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Uut John Richardson, having twenty acres of upland and meadow, more or less, iviii^ oa the southermost poynt of the wrne field neck, v.hich tract of land 13 a district of itself by a divisional line running west and by north-east aad by *vjtli, and all the rest of the upland, both in that neck and a little neck adjoinin.,; to it, is Thomas Hunt's, with highways laid out, and into the above s:ud neck north to upland and meadows, with marks renewed between the meadows and the upland, beginning at a white oak, which is the divisional Une U'twecn Thomas Hunt and John Kichardson, which line runneth from the while oak to the water cast and by north, and all the meadow lying along between the water and the marked trees is John Richardson's, until you meet another divisional line that bears west and by north aud east and by south, which line runs at the old highway, and all the rest of the meadows within the neck to be Thomas Hunt's, for and in consideration John Richardson hath all the Long Xeck lying upon the soutli end of the dv,-elling houses of John Richardson and Thomas Hunt, all the above said neck within fence, and further we have laid out unto Thomas Hunt a tract of upland lying near his house containing sixteen acres aud forty-five rods, stretching from the creek north north-west and south south-west to a great burnt stump, from thence west south-west to a creek, and from the creek south south-east," &c., &c.