Instrument having perused and finding no Meteral Rasurs Nor Interlinations Do Alow the Same to be recorded VALENTINE H. PETERS Enter'd and Compared with the Original BY VALENTINE H. PETERS Clerk This Indenture Made the twelfth day of the fourth Month Called April in the Year of Our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy one by and between Patrick Mott Jehu Mott & Adam Mott all of Hempstead in queens County on Nausaw Island and in the province of New York Executors to the Last Will & Testament of Henry Mott Junor of the Same place Deceas'd of the one part and Benjamin Fish of the Same place on the other part Whereas the Said Henry Mott the Testator by his Last Will and Testament did theirein Impower and Authorise his Said Executors above Named to Sell & Dispose of his Lands and premises for Certain Use in Said Will Mentioned and Expresed This Indenture therefore Witneseth that Said Patrick Jehu and Adam Mott for and in Consideration of the full Sum of Seven Hundred pounds Lawful Money of New York to them in hand paid by the Said Benjamin Fish at or before the Ensealing and Delevering of these presents for the Recipt of Which Wee do hereby Acknowledge and our Selves to be therewith fully Satisfied Contented and paid and thereof and therefrom and of and from every part and parcell thereof do by these presents forever Aquit Exonerate Release and Discharge him the Said Benjamin Fish And his heirs and assigns have given Granted Bargained and Sold and by these presents Do give grant bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto him PAGE 253. the Said Benjamin Fish his heirs and assigns all that one Certain Mesuage tenament and tract of Land Situate Lying in the Township of Hempstead aforesaid on the West Side of the West Meadow Swamp So Called Containing one hundred and Twenty Acres be their More or Less bounded as followeth Viz Begining at an old Stumped Walnut Tree at the South West Corner of the Said Land which is the North West Corner of Tamer Losees Land and also Adjoyning to Jacob Motts Land Runing from the Said Walnut Tree North Eighteen Degrees East one hundred and thirty Rods thence North forty six East one hundred and twenty Rods thence East fifteen South Sixty four Rods thence South twenty five West fifty Six Rods thence along the fence that is between the Said Land and James Burtices Land Untill it Comes to a Certain Walnut Sapling Marked Adjoyning to a peice of Land that Now belongs to Thomas Benjamin & Richard Wiggins thence Westerly Across the Swamp to a Certain Walnut Sapling by the highway Marked thence along the Said Highway till it Comes to James Losees Land thence along the fence as it Now Stands between the Said Land and the Said Losees Land So along the Said fence till it Comes to the first Bounds Excepting out of the Grant the highway on the West Side of the House which Leads to James Losees aforesaid Also a peice of Land and Meadow Ground bounded thus South by the above Said Land West by the Road that Leads from Benjamin Gildersleves to the above Mentioned James Losees North by the Road that Leads from fosters Meadow to Hempstead and So Along the Road untill it Comes to the Middle of the bogs and so to the peice of Land above Mentioned Containing ten Acres be the Same More or Less as it may be found within the Said Bounds Togather With all & Singular Houses Barn Stables orchards fences pasturs Woods Under Woods Water Water Corses and profits with Every the Appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any Manner of Ways Appertaining to have and to hold all & singular the above granted & bargained Mesuage Tenament Lot of Lands & premises With every of the Appurtenances unto him the Said Benjamin Fish And his heirs and assigns to the only proper Use benifit & behoof of him the Said Benjamin Fish and his heirs and Assigns forever And Patrick Mott Jehu Mott and Adam Mott for themselves their heirs Ex's & Admr's and Every of them do hereby Covenant promis and Agree to and With the Said Benjamin Fish and his heirs Ex's Admr's & assigns in Manner And form following that is to Say that the Said Patrick Mott Jehu Mott And Adam Mott by Virtue of the aforesaid Last Will & Testament of the Said Henry Mott had theirin full power and Lawfull Authority to Sell the above granted and bargained premises as aforesaid and Lastly the Said Patrick Mott Jehu Mott and Adam Mott the Said Granted and bargained premises unto the Said Benjamin Fish and to his heirs and Assigns Shall and Will Warrent and by these presents forever Defend from all persons Claiming from by or under us the Said Patrick Mott Jehu Mott & Adam Mott or from all persons Claiming from by or under the Testator in Witness Whereof we the Said Patrick Mott Jehu Mott & PAGE 254. Adam Mott have hereunto Set our hands & Seals the day and Year first above Written Be it Remembred that Patrick Mott Jehu Mott & Adam Mott the Grantors in the Within Written Deed Mentioned personally Apeared before me Valentine H. Peters one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas for Queens County and Acknowledged that they Executed the Same as their Volentary Act and Deed Which having perused and finding No Meteral Rasurs Nor Interlinations (Except the Words South by the abovesaid Land) which Words the above Named Jehu Mott (who Wrote this Instrument Declared ware Interlined before the Executing thereof) do allow the Same to be Recorded VALENTINE H. PETERS Enter'd & Compared With the Original by VALENTINE H. PETERS Clerk Att an Annual Town Meeting held in Hempstead on tuesday the 5th day of April 1774 the under Named Persons was by a Majority of the freeholders and Inhabitants then assembled Chosen Town officers to Serve for the Year Insuing to Wit Hendrick Onderdonck Supervisor David Beadle Constable & Collecter and Also Benjamin Akerly Jno Hall & Benj'n Lester Apprisors of Intested Estates Peter Titus Jno Williams & Geo Riason Commisinors for Laying out Highways Adrian Onderdonk Benj'n Lester Jno Williams & Juo Burtis Assessors Sam'l Langdon Jno Dorlon Ju & James Smith, Herricks, Fence Vewers John Hall Rich'd Titus & Sam'l Clowes Esqr Trustees Samuel Seaman, Jerusalam, Richard Mott, Joshua R. Smith, Benj'n Rainor, Ben Eldert, John Smith of Wm., James Persall, Joseph Caidles, Jacob Williams, Herman Hendrickson, Evert Vanostrant, Silas Hicks, William Langdon Jur, John Pettit, Thomas Willitts, William Crooker, Samuel Searing, Juo Willis, Martin Scanck Ju, John Marvin, Charles Cornell, of Richard, Rob't Sutton, Jeromas Rapalje, & John Tredwell Overseers of Highways Valentine H. Peters Town Clerk Joseph Hall & George Weeks to mend the Large Yard where the Sheep are parted and the Trustees to pay them the Expense Benjamin Cornell at South Chosen in the Roome of William Langdon as one of the persons to prosicute Such persons as May Trespass upon the South Marshes Patrick Mott & David Batty the persons Appointed by the Town to Inspect the Accounts of the Committe that Build the Poor House &c Certified that they had Examined the Sd Account and that the Expenses amount to the Sum of two hundred & twenty Eight pounds Eighteen Shilling & three pence the Trustees also Delivered in An Account that their is Still Due to the town in Bonds £ 140: 3:11 Enter'd by VALENTINE H. PETERS Town Clerk PAGE 255. This Indenture Made the Eighth Day of the Sixth Month Called June in the Year of our Lord Christ one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight by and Between John Willis Senior of Jerico in the bounds of Oysterbay in Queens County on Nausaw Island in the Province of New York of the one part and Isaac Doty & Robert Seaman of the Same Village Township County & Island &c aforesaid of the other part Witneseth that the Said John Willis for and in the Consideration of the Sum of five Shillings Current Money of the province of New York and for Divers other Causes and Considerations him the Said John Willis Especally Moving hath Remised Released Quit Claimed and Confirmed and by these presents for himself and his heirs' Doth fully freely Clearly and Absolutely Remise Release Quit Claim & Confirm unto them the said Isaac Doty and Robert Seaman and to Each of them Respectively and |