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west by the other moiety or half part of the said meadows, still nmning to the t:iid (ieorgc Lockhart's, and so to run southerly to the end of the said meadows, nothing excepted or reserved thereof, to the said George Locl-diart, his heirs aud us-?igas, but obe cart or waine way through the said moiety or half part of the meadow aforesaid, which moiety or equal half part of the meadow aforesaid was by nican assurance in the law, conveyed to the said George Lackhart and Janet, his wife, unto the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns, to have and to hold the said moiety or equal half part of the stiid meadows and premises with the appertiiienccs unto the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the said grant or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province, and registered in our secretary's ofncc aforesaid, bearing date the said 27th day of June, in the year of our Lord, 16S7, and as by the said deed of conveyance, under the hands and seals of the said George Lockhai-t and Janet his wife, bearing date 20th day of February, in the year of our Loid, IGSo, relation being thereunto had respectively, may more fully and at large appear; and whereas, Augustine Graham, our surveyor-general for our said pro\'iuce of New York, &c., hath by warrant bearing date the 11th of February, in the fourth year of our reign, surveyed and laid out for the said Frederick Philips, a certain small parcel of salt meadows, situate and being on the north side of Tappan creek, in the county of Orange, beginning at a certain stake set on tlie east side of the said creek, aud from thence run e:ist 37'^ 40 min. northerly to Hudson's river, six chains and ninety linlis, thence along the said river twelve chains and ninety links, south one degree, westerly to the mouth of the aforesaid creek, and from thence along the said creek, west five degrees thirty-tive minutes, northerly eleven chains, thence north twelve degrees, eistwardly two chains and forty links, thence east forty degi-ecs, southerly three chains forty-five links along the said creek, thence east eleven degrees thirty minutes, southerly two chains twenty links, thence north six degrees twenly-five minutes, seven chains aud seventy links, to the stake where the line first began, being boimded on the north-west by a certain parcel of meadow said to belong to Cornelius Claater, on the east by Hudson's river, on the south and west by the said creek, containing in all six acres three roods and eight perches, ;is by the return of the survey, bearing date the llHh day of April, in the said fourth year of our reign, and in the year of oui- Lord, 1G92, relation being thereunto had, may more fully aud at large appear, all which several tracts or parcels of land lying together, aud bounded and limited in manner hereafter expressed aud mentioned, (that is to say), all the said tract and parcels of land that are on the east side of Hudson's river, are bomided on the northward by a creek or river commonly called by the Indians Kightowank, and by the English Knotrus river, and now Belonging to Stevanus van Cortlandt, Estj., aud so eastward into the woods along the said creek or river, two English miles ; and from thence upon a direct east line to Bronxes river, and so running southward along the said Bronxes river as it rims, until a direct west line cutteth the south side of a neck or island of land, at a creek or kill called Papparinemo, which divides York island from the main, and so along the said creek or kill as it runs to Hudson's river, which part of the said creek is called by the Indians Shorackhappok, and continues dividing the said York island from the m;un, and so from thence to the ivtrthward alo'.iirst Hudson's river, until it comes into the aforesaid creek or river called b}- the Indians Kightawauk. and by the English Knotrus river, and