Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
Two pounds of Paint, Tv/ently little Scissors, Twenty little looking-glasses, one hundred fissi hooks, Awls and Nails of each one hundi-ed, four Rolls of Tobacco, one hundred Pipes, ten Bottles, Three kegs of Rum, one Barrel of
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Strong Beer and Twenty knives, Four Stroud-Ooats and Two duffel-Coats, and four Tin kettles; The vendors promise to deliver, after the receipt of the said Payment, the said Lands free and imburthened, as wellFlatts, Kills, Creeks, Woods, Vlys, Cripple Bushes, with appendages and dependancies thereof to said R. Livingston without excepting any thing therefrom save only that tlie said owners condition to have the power of freefishing in the Kill and to be able to hunt Deer in the said Limits provided they shall bring the head to tlie Purchaser ; and further to convey all free and without burthen, and to free it from all claims and pretensions, whether of Christians or Indians, whoever they may be ; whereupon parties are content. Done, in Albany and Interpreted by Aern* Corn: Vile, Interpreter 12"! July 1683.
In presence of Us The Mark of Nottoriowaw with own hand
Joh : Provoost The Mark of Tatoaenshaet with own hand
Jan Janz. Bleecker The Mark of Tamaranochqua
Amout Corn. Viele The Mark of Wawanitsawaw
Robert Livingston.
(In the Margin) N. B. Before Signing Tamaranachquae the Indian Woman conditioned that she should have the Privilege to plant for four years on a little hook of Land which sliall be shewn to her and no more such is specially conditioned in presence of the commissaries.