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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. 315 words

Watkins and Royal Flint, for the purchase of all the unlocated part of the following tract of land, to wit : beginning at the northwest corner of the township of Chemung ; tlience running easterly along the northern boundary of the said township of Chemung, until it strikes Owego river, being the west bounds of the ten townships added to Massacliusetts, thence northerly along the said bounds to the township of Dryden, being one of the military townships appropriated for the use of the troops of this state ; thence westerly along the southern boundary of the townships of Dryden, Ulysses and Hector, to the southwestern part of the Seneca lake ; thence west until a line strikes the pre-emption line (wiiich line is also the south boundary of a tract tliis day sold to James Watson) and then southerly along tlie said pre-emption line to the place of beginning, at the rate of tliree shillings and four pence per acre ; the one sixth part of the purcliase money to be paid, with lawful interest, in six months from the date hereof, and the residue in two equal instalments, the one in nine months, and the other in eigliteen months thereafter ; being read and duly considered, (Accepted) Acres 300,000 £50,000 0 0

The application of Melancton Smith, for the piu-chase of a certain tract of land, beginning where the old line of property strikes the Canada creek, and running thence southerly along said line until it meets the most northerly corner of a tract of land, grant to one Perach6 ; thence along the said Perach6's land to most westerly corner thereof, and thence on a direct line northerly along the line of the Oneida cession to the place of beginning, at the rate of three shillings and seven pence per acre, payable the one sixtli in six months, and the residue, the