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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 313 words

Cutting, for tlie purchase of townships No. 11 and 14, being two of the twenty townships sui'veyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed on the 25th day of February, 1789, at the rate of three shillings and three pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on tlie first day of October next, and the residue to be paid in two equal payments, the one on the first day of April next, and the other on the first day of January, 1793, being read and duly considered, (Accepted) Acres 50,000 X8,125 0 0

The application of William Moore, in behalf of liimself and as attorney of John Springsteen, Jacob Springsteen, Josiah Stow, David Stow, Daniel Stow, David Hotcliliiss and Joseph Beebee, to purchase a certain tract of land, situate in the County of Tioga, partly in the townsliip of Warren and partly in the township of Chenango, beginning at tlie southeast corner of a tract of land granted to Abijah Hammond, and from thence running along the south bounds of the said tract north eighty-seven degrees, west eighty Chains; thence south three degrees, west about .•eighty chains, to land granted to William Alhson; then along part of his north bounds south, eighty-six degrees and forty minutes east, one liundred and sixty chains to the west bounds of a tract of land granted to James Chuton and Isaac Melcher; and then along the said last mentioned bounds as they run, to the place beginning, containing about one thousand acres more or less, at the rate of six shillings per acre; one sixth part of tlie purchase money to be paid tlie first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one on the first day of April next, and the other on the first day of January, 1793, being read and duly considered,