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-

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tenances whatsoever to the said Tract or Parcell of Land belonging or in any wise Appertaining to have and to hold the said Tract of Land and Premissesse together with all and Singular the Appurtenances aforemenconed unto the said Robert Livingston his Heires and Assignes to the Proper use and benehooife of the said Robert Livingston his Heires and Assignes for ever to be holden of his said Majestye in free and Common Soccage According to the Tenure of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in his Majestyes Kingdome of England Rendering and Paying as a Quitt Rent for the Same Twenty Shillings Currant Mony of the Province Yearely and every Yeare at Albany upon the five and twentieth Day of March unto his Majesty his Heires and Successors or unto such Officer or Officers as should be Appointed to Receive the same as by the said Pattent Recorded in Secretaryes Office Relation being thereunto had may more fully and att Large Appear And whereas the said Robert Livingston by Virtue of another Pattent under my Hand and Sealed with the Scale of the Province beareing Date the Seven and Twentieth Day of August Last Past is Seized and Possessed of another Tract of Land called Tachkanick Eyeing and being adjacent unto the aforrecited Tract of Land begining behind Pattkook on a Certaine Creeke that Runns into the East side of Hndsons River and is known by the name of Roeloflfe Johnsons kill Begining on the North West side of the said kill that Runns along tlie filatt or Plaine Land at a Place Called by the Native Minissichtanock where two black Oake Trees are marked with L and from thence along a Small Hill to a Valley that Leads to a small Creeke Called by the Indians Quissicheook and over the said Creek to a high Place to the Westward of a High ]\Iountaine where two black Oake Trees are marked L and is Called by the Natives Kachkawanick from thence Westward to a Small Kill on the side of a Creeke Called Skaanpook where two White Oake Trees are marked L and soe runns a Long the Eastside of the said Creeke which a little lower is Called by the Name of Twastawekah and is the Westerly Bounds the Southerly Bounds begining on the other side of the Creeke that runnes along the fflatt or Plaine over against Minissichtanock where two Trees are marked and