PATENT OF THE TOWN OF STRATFORD 



Whereas the Generall court of Conecticutt have formerly Granted to us, 

 the proprietors, Inhabitants of Stratford all those lands both meadow & upland 

 with in these abutments viz upon the sea on the Sea shore South on Stratford River 

 on the east & on Fayerfield Bownds on the west & to run from the sea on the 

 south the whole Bredth of twelve Miles & from the Norwest corner to run 

 easterly of Stratford River & abutts on the Wilderness on the North the said 

 Land having been by purchase or otherwise Lawfully obteyned of the Indian 

 Native proprietors & whereas the proprietors the afoar Sayd Inhabitants of 

 Stratford in the colony of Conecticutt after making Application to the Gov- 

 ernor & company of the Sayd Colony of conecticutt assembled in court May 

 as"" 1685 that they may have a patent for confirmation of the afoar Sayd Lands 

 so purchassed & Granted to them as afoar Sayd & which they have Stood 

 Seized & quietly possessed of for many yeares late past without Interruption 

 now for a more full confirmation of the afoar Sayd Tract of Land as it is 

 Butted & Bownded afoar Sayd unto the present proprietors of the Township of 

 Stratford in their possession & Injoyment of the premises Know yee that the 

 sayd Governor & Company assembled in Generall Court according to the com- 

 mission & By vertue of the power Granted to them by our Late Soveraigne 

 Lord Charles the IP of blessed memory In his Letters pattents bearing date the 

 three & Twentyeth yeare of his Sayd Ma'"^^' Reigne have given & Granted & by 

 these presents doe give grant rattify & confirme unto Capt W"" Curtice M' 

 Joseph Hawley M' Isaac Niccols M' Jeremy Judson Le' John Beardslie en- 

 signe Steven Burrit Serg' John Curtice M' Richard Blackleach M'' Timothy 

 Wilcockson M' John Wells M' Samuel Sherman & M'^ Ephraim Stiles & all 

 the rest of sayd present proprietors of the Township of Stratford & their heires 

 & assignes forever & to each of them in Such proportion as they have all ready 

 agreed upon for the divission of the Same all that fore Sayd Tract & parcels 

 of Land as it is butted & Bownded together with all the woods uplands 

 arrable lands meadowes pastures ponds havens portes waters Rivers w"* all 

 adjoyneing Islands fishings therein Huntings fowleings mines Mineralls Quar- 

 ries & precious Stones upon or within the Sayd Tract of lands with all other 

 proffits & comodities there unto belonging or in any wise appertaineing & doe 

 allso Grant unto the afoarnamed Capt" W" Curtice M"' Joseph Hawley M' Isack 

 Niccols M" Jeremy Judson Le' John Beardsly Ensign Steven Burret Serg' John 

 Curtice M^ Richard Blackleach M"- Timothy Wilcockson M' John Wells M"- 

 Sam" Sherman & M"' Ephraim Stiles & the rest of the present proprietors Inhab- 

 itants of Stratford afoarsayd their heires & assigns forever that the abovesayd 



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