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of our Sovereinge Lady Anne over England Scotland france and 

 Ireland Queene Defender of the faith & Anno Dom- 1704 and 

 by the Majority of Votes made Choice of Lambert Garri/on 

 Sheriff Jaques Pollion Gen* and Antony Tyse yeomen for to 

 Looke for the mo/t Convenient place in the Center of the Said 

 County to build and Erect an Edifice on" [ends here]. (Rec- 

 ords 1680-1700 Richmond County; Stillwell i: 52.) 



145. 1707. January The 28'^ 1706-7. "Att a meeting of the 

 Ju/tices hereunder named and haveing under there con/idera- 

 tion of building a towne house and pre/on according to Act of 

 A/sembly it is hereby ordred that the said Towne hou/e and 

 pre/on According to the Said Act be built at the head of the 

 fresh Kill upon the Land of M"". Rezoe and Lues Deboys pro- 

 vided mr. Rezoe and Lues Deboys do performe a promi/e they 

 made by them of Giveing and Convaying the Ground prom- 

 i/ed by them before three of us for the use of a Town hou/e and 

 Pre/on for the use of the County forever. 



Ellis Duxbury 

 Joseph Billopp 

 John Stillwell 



his 



Abraham A Lakeman" 



mark 



(Record 1 680-1 760 Richmond Co. Stillwell i : 42.) 



146. 1710. In 1710 the prison was built at " Cuckols towne " (Rich- 

 mond) by order of the Court, as follows: — 



" Ordered that Mr. Lambart Garisone and Mr. Wm. Tillyer 

 (the late and then present Sheriff) See the prison House built at 

 Cuckols Towne — ^y^ Dimensions Twelve foot in breadth, fourteen 

 foot Long, Two story high, six foot y® Loer Room from beam to 

 plank, and the upper Story Six foot, all to be built with stone, 

 and for building of the sd prison the Said Undertakers have hereby 

 power To take the Monys out of the Collectors hands for carying 

 on the sd work & the order of y® sd. Undertakers and Receipts 

 shall be a Sufficient discharge to y® sd. Collectors." (Clute 168; 

 Morris 2 : 177.) 



147. 1728. "An Act to Enable the Justices of the peace in the 

 County of Richmond to build a County House and a New Goal in 

 the said County. (Passed September 20, 1728.) 



Whereas in and by vertue of an Act of General Assembly En- 



