THE TOWN OF PELHAM. 75 



sometimes styled " Minnewies" or " Minnewits," but, commonly called 

 City Island. " Upon the i ith of December, 1685, John Pell, Esq., by 

 conveyance made over to John Smith, of the town of bruckland, Great 

 Minneford's Island, which lies situated opposite to Ann-hook's Neck, 

 formerly in possession of William Pate and Robert Godfrey." The 

 principal proprietors of the island in 1700, appear to have been William 

 Euerden and Gabriel Umbriel, from whom it passed to Amos Dodge. 

 On the 21st and 22nd of June. 1753, Amos Dodge and Sarah, his wife, 

 "in consideration of the sum of ^2300, "did by certain indentures of 

 lease and release," " sell and convey unto Samuel Rodman, his heirs and 

 assigns forever a certain tract of land called Minnefers Island," Szc., a 

 upon the 1st of June, 1755. Samuel Rodman sells to John Jones of 

 Jamaica, Queens County, Island of Nassau for the sum of 5^, all that 

 certain island, commonly called Minneford's Island, &c, containing 

 by estimation 230 acres of land and meadow, yielding and paying 

 therefor, at the expiration of the said year, one pepper-corn, if the 

 same should be lawfully demanded/ The next proprietor of the island 

 was Jo.;eph Palmer, who, on the 19th of June, 1761, conveyed the 

 whole to his brother Benjamin Palmer, "Upon the 19th of October, 

 1761, occurs a deed of covenants, grant and partition from the latter 

 individual and twenty-nine others, quit claiming to each other their re- 

 spective rights in severalty as designated by a map drawn by Samuel 

 Willis of the said island. " c Previous, however, to the above deed of 

 covenants, Benjamin Palmer conveyed to the several proprietors their 

 respective thirtieth parts. Upon the 27th of May, 1762, Governor 

 Robert Monckton laid out for Benjamin Palmer and others the breadth 

 of four hundred feet of the ground, round the east side, south, and part 

 of the west side of a certain island lying in the Sound or East River, 

 in the manor of Pelham, &c, called and known by the name of Minne- 

 ford's Island. The petitioners on this occasion were David Hunt, 

 Jonathan Fowler, Caleb Hunt, Edmund Ward, Samuel Ward, John 

 Wooley, Isaac Barnes, Enoch Hunt, Joseph Mullineux, James Lewis, 

 Aaron Hunt, Benjamin Palmer, Joseph Palmer, Samuel Le Roux, and 

 many other proprietors of Minneford's Island, &c." d " Sept. 3d, 1762, 



a On the Oth of Aug., 1755. Amos Dodge, was firmly bound unto Samuel Rodman, yeoman, in 

 the full sum of £2300 for the purchase of the Island. Co. Kec. Lib. G. 465 and 467. Sae orig- 

 inal djc. presented by Richard E. Mount, Esq., to Xew York Hist. Society. 



b Co. Rec. Lib. G. 467. 



c Copied from original MSS., presented by Richard E. Mount, Esq., to N. T. Hist. Society. 

 " The map of City Island," says Aaron Burr, " was drawn between the 17th of A ugust and 

 the 29th of October, 1761." See Mount Rogers, a map of a portion of Minniford's Island, 

 made by Alexander Colden, surveyor general, May 5th, 1763, is preserved in Sec. of State 

 Office, Albany, No. 159. 



d See docket on file in Sue. State Office, Albany. 



