5S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



shipps, place or jurisdiction cither upon the maine or upon Longc Island — but 

 should in all cases, things and matters be deemed, leputed, taken and held as an 

 absolute, intire, infranchised towneshipp, manner and place of itselfe in this gov- 

 ernment, and should be ruled, ordered and directed in all matters as to govern- 

 ment, accordingly, by the governour and Counccll, and General Court of Assizes 

 — only provided, always, that the inhabitants in said tract of land granted as 

 aforesaid, should be obliged to send fforwards to the next to>vnes all publick 

 pachquetts and letters, or hew and cryes coming to New Yorke or goeing from 

 thence to any other of his Majestic's collonys; to have and to hold the said tract 

 of land and islands, with all and singular the appurtenances and premises, to- 

 gaither with the privelidges, imuneties, franchises, and advantages therein given 

 and granted unto the said Thomas Pell, to the proper use and behoofe of the said 

 Thomas Pell, his heires and assignes for ever, ffuly, ffreely, clearely, in as large 

 and ample manner and forme, and with such full and absolute immunityes and 

 privcledgcs as before is expresst, as if he had held the same immediately ffrom 

 his Majesty the Kinge of England, &c, and his suckcessors, as of the manner of 

 East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in free and common sockage and by 

 fealty, only yealdeing, rendering and payeing ycarely and every j-eare unto his 

 then royall highucss, the Duke of Yorke, and his heires, or to such governour or 

 governours as from time to time should by him be constituted and appoynted, as 

 an acknowledgement, one lambe on the first day of May, if the same shall be de- 

 manded as by the said deede in writeing, and the entrey thereof in the bookes of 

 records in the secretaire's office for the province aforesaid, may more fully and at 

 large appeare. And wliereas, John Pell, gentleman, nephew of the said Thomas 

 Pell, to whom the lands, islands and premises, with appurtenances, now by the 

 last will and testament of him, the said Thomas Pell, given and bequeathed, now 

 is in the actual, peacable and quiett seazeing and possession of all and singular the 

 premises, and hath made his humble request to mec, the said Thomas Dongan, 

 that I would, in the bchalfe of his sacred Majesty, his heirs and suckcessors, give 

 and grant unto him, the said John Pell, a more full and firme grant and confirm- 

 ation of the above lands and premises, with the appurtenances, under the scale 

 of this his Majestie's province: Now Know Tee, that I, the said Thomas Dongan, 

 by virtue of the commission and authority unto me given by his said Majesty, 

 and power in me being and residing, in consideration of the quitt rent hereinafter 

 reserved, and for divers other good and lawfull considerations me thereunto 

 mouving, I have given, rattefied and confirmed, and by these presents doe here- 

 by give, grant, ratefie and confirme unto the said John Pell, his heirs and assigns 

 for ever, all the before mentioned and rented lands, islands and premises, with 

 the heridatements and appurtenances, privcledgcs, imuneties, ffranchises and ad- 

 vantages to the same belonging and appertaining, or in the said before mention- 

 ed deede in writing expresst, implyed or intended to be given and granted, and 

 every part and parcell thereof, together with all that singular messuages, tene- 

 ments, barnes, stables, orchards, gardens, lands, islands, meadows, inclosures, 

 arable lands, pastures, feedeings, commons, woods, underwoods, soyles, quar- 

 reys, mines, minnerally, (royall mines only excepted,) waters, rivers, ponds, 

 lakes, hunteing, haucking, ffishing, ffowleing, as alsoe all rents, services, wasts, 

 strayes, royaltyes, liberties, priviledges, jurisdictions, rights, members and ap- 

 purtenances, and all other immunityes, royalties, power of franchises, profitts, 



