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Albany, And for the better Preserving the Title of the recited Tract of Land and Premissess I liave Caused these Presents to .Jbe Entred in the Secretarys office of this Province, Given under my Hand and Sealed with the Scale of the Province att ffort James in New Yorke the seven and twentyth day of August in tlie Yeare of our Lord 1 685 And in the first Yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James the Second by the Grace of God of England Scottland fifrance and Ireland King Defender of the faitli Supream Lord and Proprietor of the Province of New York &c.

Tho Dongan.

GOV. DONGAN'S PATENT FOR THE MANOR OF LIVINGSTON.

Thomas Dongan Lieutenant Governor and Vice Admirall under his Majesty King James tlie Second of New York and its Dependencies in America To all to whom tliese Presents shall Come Sendoth Greeting Whereas Robert Livingston by Virtue of a Patent under my Hand and Sealed with the Scale of the Province aforesaid beareing Date the fourth Day of November Anno: Dom one thousand Six hundred and Eighty four is Seized and Possessed of a Certaine Tract of Land Scituate and Lying on a Creek on the East side of Hudsons River Comonly Called or knowne by the Name of Roeloffe Johnson Kill it being in three Plaines Called Nekankook Kickua Wicquaskaka and two or three other Small fflatts or Plaines in all about one hundred Morgan or two hundred Acres together with Eighteen Hundred Acres of Woodland Eyeing and being betweene a Small Creek or Kill Eyeing over against Catts kill Called Wackanhasseck and a Place by the Indians Called Swaskahamuka to the South of Roeloffe Johnsons kill that is to say two hundred acres a Long the Rivers Side and the Rest adjoyning to the said two hundred Acres and Soe Runneing back into the Woods and Alsoe aU Woods Underwoods Waters Runns Streames Ponds Creeks Meadows Marshes fishing Hawking Hunting and fowhng and all other Liberties and Previledges Hereditaments and Appur-