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West Sixty two links thence West, to the 
place where it begun. Containing two 
roods and fifteen perches. To have and to 
hold the sd parcell of Iand for ever to 
the said Caleb Hethcoat, Joseph Billopp, 
Nath] Britton, Lambt Garrison and Alexr 
Stuart to them their heirs and assigns for 
ever In behalfe of all the ffreeholders and 
Inhabitants of the above said county as 
also to them and every of them their heirs 
and assigns for ever all of the above par- 
cell of land to be, remaine and continue 
from tbe date hereof end for ever for 
Building of an English Church and Church 
yard on Burying place upon the said Land 
for the publick benefitt as well of the In- 
habitants of the said Island as for these 
ahove named Gentlemen—And to noother 
use, the said Lands granted to be applyd 
but for the sole and proper benefit of the 
Church of England as by Law establishd, 
Andthesd William Tillyer and Mary, his 
wife, doe bind themselves their Heirs, 
Execrs and Admiurs That they shall mainu- 
tain and defend the said parcell of Land 
In the Quiett and peaceable possession 
To them the sd Caleb Hethcoat, Joseph 
Billopp, Nathil Britton, Lambt Garrison 
Alexr Stuart and to the said ffreeholders 
and Inhabitants of the said County, to 
them and every of them three heirs and 
assigns forever As for ffee simple agst all 
manner of persons shall * * * * * 
aud for ever by these presents defend. 
In Testimony Whereof the sd 
William Tillyer and Mary his wife have 
hereunto sett there and fixt there seals. 
‘Dated this Sixth Day of August In the 
tenth year of Her Majesties Reign Anno 
q Domini, 1711. 
Sigillant et deliverant 
in presence of 
AENEAS MCKENZIE, 
HENRY BERRY. 
WILLIAM TILLYER, [L. S$ ] 
her 
MARY X TILLYER, [L. S.] 
mark 
his 
JoHN I M MorGan 
mark 
his 
Hans X LAWRENCE 
mark 
Memorandum this 6th Day of August, 
1711, Came before me Benjamin Cooper, 
one of Her Majesties justices for the 
County aforesaid William Tillyer above 
named and did acknowledge the above 
deed of gift to be his voluntary Act and 
Deed And his wife Mary did also appear 
before me and being privately examined 
whether she was compelled or threatened 
to sign this deed Acknowledged that she 
did sign it ffreely and Voluntarily without 
compulsion. 
Acknowledged before me 
BENJAMIN COOPER.”’ 
In pursuance of the instructions of 
Queen Anne given at St. James the 30th 
of December 1709, Robert Hunter, Esq., 
Governor, &c., Thomas Byerly, Esq. Col- 
lector and Receiver Generall, George 
Clark, Esq., Secretary, and Augustize 
Graham Esq, Surveyor Generall of the 
Province of New York on June 2gth 1713 
‘‘let out for the Reverend Aeneas McKen- 
zie, Minister, of Staten Island, in Rich- 
mond County, Ellis Duxbury, Thomas 
Farmer, Augustine Graham, Joseph Ar- 
rowsmith, Lambert Gerretson, Nathaniel 
Brittain, William Tillyer, Richard Meirell, 
John Morgan and Alexander Steward, all 
freeholders and of the principall Inhabi- 
tants of the said Island, in communion of 
Church of England as by law established 
Incorporated by the name of the minister, 
church wardens and vestry of St. Andrew, 
in the County of Richmond, and to their 
successors for ever, all that Stone Church 
called St. Andrew, & the tenement and 
lott of ground whereon it is built, situate 
and being on Carles Neck at the head of 
ffresh Kill, begiuning at a single stake 
and heap of stones and runs from thence 
toward the Creek S»uth one chain and 
seventy five links, themce East three 
chains twenty links to the highway,thence 
by the highway North eighteen degrees 
East one chain thirty links, thence North 
thirty seven degrees West sixty two links, 
and thence West to the place where it 
began, containing in the whole two rood 
and fifteen perches, formerly granted by 
William Tillyer for to build the said 
church upon and for a cemetery and 
churchyard. .*) * * © BtoB Med? 
