William tbie Third, by the grace of God. of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defeader of the Faith, &C., to all to wliom these presents shall conic, seudeth greeting: Whereas, the Hon'ble Edmund Andross, Esq., Seigneur of Sausmarez, late Governor of province of New Yurk, &c., by a certain deed or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province of New York, bearing date the 25th day of 3Iarch, in the year of our Lord 1076, pursuant to the commission and authority then in him residing, did confirm unto Col. Lewis 3Iorris, of the I.?!:md of Barbadoes, a certain plantation or tract of laud laying or being

a Smith's Historv of X. Y.

h DuulapN Ili-t. N. Y.. vol. i. i'i.

c Smith's Hiit.of N. Y.

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..^>3 llie inalne over against the town of Ilacrlcm, commonly called Bronckse's •"'..,) .-.-.iilainiii!? 250 niorgcn or SCO acres of land, besides the meadow thereunto V -it-xcd or adjoining?, butted and bounded as in tlie original Dutch ground brief V-d p:itent of confirmation is set forth; which said tract of land and meadow, I'-iviii- been bv the said Col. Lewis xAIorris long possessed and enjoyed, and having likewise thereon made good improvement, he, the said Edmond ^\jidros3, late coventor of our said province, did further, by the said deed or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province, and bearing date as aforesaid, we grant and confirm Cnto tlic said Col. Lewis Morris, for his further improvement, a certain quantity vi land adjacent unto the said tract of land-which land, with the addition, U-in" bounded from his own house over against Ilaerlem, running up Ilaerlem UivcT to Daniel Tmner's land, and so along this said land northward to John Archer's line, and from tlience stretching east to the land of John Kichardson and Thomas Hunt, and tlieuco along their lands southward to the Sound, even so along the Somid about soutliwest tlirough Brouck's hill to the said Col.