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II. Every person of foreign birth, living on July 5, 1715, who 

 had inhabited within the Colony prior to November, 1683, was 

 deemed to have been naturalized, their deeds and wills were to 

 be held valid, and titles thereunder, present and prospective, were 

 confirmed. 



III. All persons of foreign birth who had settled in the Colony 

 after November i, 1683, who had purchased lands, and had died 

 seized thereof or who had had conveyed the same, were deemed 

 to have been naturalized, with like effect. 



IV. All persons of foreign birth, being Protestants, living on 

 July I, 1 71 5, and inhabiting within the Colony, might become 

 naturalized, on taking the oaths by law appointed, subscribing ^ 

 the test and taking the abjuration oath before any Court of 

 record of the County within nine months and paying the legal 



fees of Court and clerk. 



V. Persons of foreign birth inhabiting within the Colony and 

 dying prior to the expiration of the nine months were deemed to 

 have been naturalized. 



I Laws of the Colony of New York, page 85. 



Governor Francis Lovelace directed Jacques Cortelyou to lay 

 out new lots in addition to the lots at the Old Town and to lay 

 out a village for forty settlers at the Great Kill, "and to lay out the 

 Great Kill Salt Meadow in ten acre lots. 



The French Map of the Great Kill vicinity may have been 

 Jacques Cortelyou's return to the warrant of Survey. The two 

 villages indicated may have been his selection of sites therefor. 

 See Volume I, Council Minutes in the library of the Association. 



Was the proposed village near the Great Kill, Dover? 



Jacques Guy on, ist, left all his property to his widow Sarah, 

 daughter of Philippe Casier. If Sarah was foreign born and un- 

 naturalized, and if she died intestate, and if Jacques Guyon 2d 

 was her son and had been born without the Province of New 

 York, his naturalization would seem to have been necessary to 

 enable him to sell or devise his land, or to give his heirs good 

 title by descent. 



