I4S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



and Inheritances were particularly and severally Expressed Mentioned and De- 

 acribed under the usual Quitt Kent, Clauses, provisions conditions limitations 

 and restrictions as are limited and appointed liyourRoyall Instructions for the 

 Granting of Lands in our Province of New York, for that purpose. Which re- 

 quest wee being willing to grant Know Yee that of our Especial Grace certain 

 knowledge and meer Motion Wee have given, granted, ratified and confirmed and 

 do by these presents for us our heirs and successors for ever Give, Grai t, Ratifie 

 and Confirm unto the aforesaid Daniel Pwrty, Samuel Brown and Benjamin 

 Brown and to their heirs and assigns for ever. All that the aforesaid Tract of 

 Land and Island Containing as before is set forth Four Thousand Five Hundred 

 Acres together with all and singular Woods, Underwoods, Houses, Edifices, 

 Buildings, Barns, Fences, Orchards, Fields, Fielding, Pastures, Meadows, Mar- 

 shes, Swamps, Ponds, Pools, Waters, Watercourses, Rivers, Rivoletts, Runs and 

 Streams of Water, Fishing, Fowling, Hunting and Hawking, Quarrys, Mines, 

 Mineralls, Standing Growing Lying and being or to be had used or enjoyed with- 

 in the limits and bounds aforesaid and all other profits benefits libertys privil- 

 edges, Hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or any ways ap- 

 pertaining. And all that our Estate, Right, Title, Interest, Claim and Demand 

 whatsoever of in or to the same. And the Revertion and Revertions, Remainder 

 and Remainders and the Yearly Rents and Profits of the same (Excepting and 

 always reserving out of this our present Grant unto us our heirs and successors 

 for ever all such Fir Trees and Pine Trees of the Diameter of Twenty-four 

 inches at Twelve inches from the ground or root as are or shall be fit to make 

 Masts for the use of our said their Royall Navy. As also all such other Trees, 

 as are or shall be fit to make planks and Knees for the use of our said their said 

 Royall Navy only which now are standing growing or being in and upon any of 

 the said Tract of Land and Island with Free Lycence and Liberty for any per- 

 son or persons whomsoever by us our heirs and successors or any of them to be 

 thereunto authorized and appointed under our and their sign Manual with Work- 

 men Horses Waggons Carts and Carriages and without to enter upon and come 

 into the same Tract of Land and Island and there to fell cut down root up hiew 

 saw rive splitt have take cart and carry away the same Masts, Trees, Planks and 

 Knees for the use aforesaid and also Except all Gold and Silver Mines, saving also 

 and reserving unto the heirs and assigns for ever of the aforesaid Christopher 

 Bridge Eighteen small Tracts of Land which Lye within the said bounds and are 

 part of Twenty small Tracts formerly granted to him in his life time by Letters 

 Patent under the Great Seal of our said Province of New York bearing Date the 

 Nineteenth day of July in the Fourth Year of our Reign saving also and reserv- 

 ing unto Lemuel Rogers and Roger Parks, and to their several and respective 

 heirs and assigns respectively for ever their Respective Rights Title Interest and 

 Equity which they and either of them respectively do shall or may have or claim 

 to the Southermost part of the said Island any thing in these Presents to the 

 contrary thereof in any ways notwithstanding.) To have and To hold all that the 

 aforesaid Tract of Land and Island containing in the whole Four Thousand Five 

 Hundred Acres of Land and all other the above granted premises with the 

 hereditaments and appurtenances (Saving and Excepting only as before is Excepted 

 and Reserved) unto the aforesaid Daniel Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benjamin 

 Brown, their heirs and assigns for ever, but to and for the uses following and to and 



