Provided allways and itt is the true Intent and meaning hereof that in Case the Heirs of the said CoU Benjamin Fletcher or any of his friends or Relations doe att any time hereafter Arrive in this Citty of New Yorke that they Claime and have a Right to sitt in the said Pew for the hearing Divine Service any thing Above Mentioned to the Contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding In Wittness whereof I have hereunto put my hand & scale in New Yorke the twenty sixth day of April in the tenth year of the Reign of our Soveraign Lord King William the third of England Scotland France & Ireland Defender of the faith &c: AnnoqDom. 1698. Sealed and Delivered In the presence of

W NiCOLL

Will Sharpas

Memorandum that on the twenty fifth day of October Anno Dom 1711 personall appeared before me Adolph Pliillips Esq"" one of the Justices of the supream Court of Judicature of the Province of New York WiUiam Sharpas one of the Witnesses to the within Instrument and made Oath upon the holy Evangelists «)f Almighty God that he saw the within named Benjamin Fletcher seal and deliver the same as his Yoluntary Act and Deed in the

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presence of William Nicoll the Other Witnesses thereunto subscribed

Jur Coram me die & Anno sup diet

A. Philipse.

•»* Col. Fletcher was governor of New York from 1692 to 1698. He seems by his arms to have been originally from Cheshire, Eng. His wife's arms are, it will be noticed, impaled with his, and resemble those of the Lincolnshire branch of the Monckton family, of which Gen'l Monckton, afterwards Govr of New York, was a Member.