tract of land shall be forever hereafter deemed reputed & be an Intire Town- 

 ship of it selfe to have and to hold the Sayd Tracts of land premises with all & 

 every there appurtenance together with the priviledgcs Immunities & Franchises 

 herein given & granted unto the said Capt W™ Curtice M'' Joseph Hawley M 

 Isaac Niccols M'^ Jeremy Judson Leut John Beardsly Ensign Steven Burret Sargt 

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

 Kl' Samuel Sherman & M"' Ephraim Stiles Si all others the present proprie- 

 tors Inhabitants of Stratford their heires & assignes forever & to the only proper 

 use & behoofe of the said Capt" William Curtice M'' Joseph Hawley M"^ Isaac 

 Niccols M'^ Jeremy Judson Leu' John Beardsly Ensign Steven Burret Sarg* 

 John Curtice M' Richard Blackleach M"' Timothy Wilcoxson M'' John Wells 

 M"' Samuel Sherman & M'' Ephraim Stiles & all others the present proprietors 

 Inhabitants of Stratford their heires & successors & assignes forever according 

 to the Teno'' of his Ma''" Mano"' of east Greenwich In the county of Kent in 

 the Kingdom of England in free and common sociag & not in Capitee nor 

 by Knight Service they yielding and payeing therefore to o'' Soveraigne Lord 

 the King his heires and successors onely the fifth part of all the oare of Gold & 

 Silver which from time to time and all times hereafter shall be there gotten had 

 or obteyned in leiv of all rents services dutys and demands whatsoever accord- 

 ing to charter in Witness whereof we have caused the Scale of the colony to be 

 here unto affixed This Fourteenth of May One Thousand Six hundred eighty & 

 Six in the second yeare of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord James the Second 

 by the Grace of God of England Scotland France & Ireland, King, defender of 

 the fayth Si'. 



Robert Treat Governour 



Postscript] Note also that the Islands in said river belonging to Stratford 

 and called by the mouth of Messrs Knells & Brinsmeads the lower and uppor 



Islands and Harnd Island In all five w wanted priveledges 



of the river to have & to hold to the said towne of Stratford to them & their 

 heirs forever. 



P"^ order of the Generall Court of Conecticutt. Signed P'' John Allyn 

 Secretary March 30"" 1687 P' order of the Governor & Company of the 

 Colony of Conecticutt, Signed P"^ John Allyn Secy Entered in the pub" record 

 Lib D. Folio 159. 



May 19"' 1686 P"' John Allyn Secrety"' Entered in the Records of the 

 Town of Stratford Lib 2" folio 489 P'' Joseph Curtiss Record' ' 



' See frontispieces. 



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