Now this indenture -uitnesscth that the said Gouvemeur ^Morris, in the consideration of the premises aud of one dollar lawful money of the United States of America, to him in hand paid by the said parties of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, sold aud conveyed, and hereby doth grant, bargain, sell and convey unto t!ie said parties of the second part, their succes^^ors and assigns, all that certain piece or parrel of land situate in Morrisania aforesaid, whereon tlic said chmch edifice hath been erected, and bounded as follov.s , to wit : Beginning at a stake situate south sixty-?ix degrees and fort3--five minutes, east, sixt^'-eight and a half feet from an iron bolt in the south corner of a large rock, which stake is the south-west corner of the lot herein described, and running thence north tweuty-three degi-ces and fifteen minutes; east, two hundred and eighty feet six inches, thence south sixty-four degrees and forty-five minutes ; east, three hmidred and uinty-five feet and two inches, thence sixith thirty degrees and thirty minutes ; west, one hundred and twenty-six feet and eight inches, thence south forty-one degi-ecsaud thirty minutes; west, one hundred and forty-nine feet six inches, thence soiitli forty degrees, west nine feet and two inches, thence north sixty-six degrees and forty-five minutes, west three hundred and twenty-six feet and six inches to the place of beginning, the last menlioucd cotu'se being para'.ell with the front of the said church or edifice, aud distant therefrom one hundred and sixty-two feet aud eight