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that John Richardson, having twenty acres of upland and meadow, more or less, 

 lying on the southernmost poynt of the come field neck, which tract of land is a 

 district of itself hy a divisional line running west and by north-east and by 

 south, and all the rest of the upland, both in that neck and a little neck adjoin- 

 ing to it, is Thomas Hunt's, with highways laid out, and into the above said 

 neck north to upland and meadows, with marks renewed between the mead- 

 id the upland, beginning at a white oak, which is the divisional line 

 between Thomas Hunt and John Richardson, which line runneth from the 

 white oak to the water cast and by north, and all the meadow lying along be- 

 tween the water and the marked trees is John Richardson's, until j-ou meet an- 

 other divisional line that bears west and by north and east and by south, which 

 line runs at the old highway, and all the rest of the meadows within the 

 neck to be Thomas Hunt's, for and in consideration John Richardson hath all 

 the Long Neck lying upon the south end of the dwelling houses of John Richard- 

 son and Thomas Hunt, all the above said neck within fence, and further we 

 have laid out unto Thomas Hunt a tract of upland lying near his house contain- 

 ing sixteen acres and forty-five rods, stretching from the creek north north-west 

 and south south-west to a great burnt stump, from thence west south-west to a 

 creek, and from the creek south south-east," &c, &c. 



The three daughters and co-heiresses of John Richardson were : Bertha, 

 wife of Joseph Ketcham, of Newtown, Long Island ; Mary, wife of 

 Joseph Hadley, of Yonkers ; and Elizabeth, wife of Gabriel Leggett, 

 from whom descend the Leggetts of West Farms. His last will bears 

 date 16th November, 1679; in it he bequeaths — 



♦'To his beloved wife, Martha, all his housing and orchard, and all move- 

 bles without and within, and all live stock, also all his land and meadow on the 

 planting neck, and all the Long Neck that runs southward from Thomas Hunt's 

 new dwelling house to the Sound, and this during her life to act and dispose as 

 she shall see cause." 



"To his son-in-law, Joseph Hadley, a pasture of three acres already laid out, 

 itc. at or about the first spring, and all the meadow that is already divided, 

 that is on this side the river above ye planting neck." ' ' To his three daughters, 

 two hundred acres of land each ; " " and to his brother's son, in England, Joseph 

 Richardson, one hundred acres, if he come within the space of one whole year 

 to receive it ; and if he come not within the time prefixed, it shall remain in 

 Martha my wife's hands." "In conclusion, he constitutes and appoints his well- 

 beloved friends, William Richardson and Richard Ponton, both of Westchester, 

 and Jonathan Hayward, of Newtown, Long Island, overseers of his last will and 

 testament, and that it is his whole will and testament after his decease, he wit- 

 nesses it under his own hand the 16th day of November, 1679-1680." 



Signed, John Richardson."* 



Upon the 12th of January, 1686, Governor Thomas Dongan granted 

 a patent to Thomas Hunt, Sen., for all his land bounded on the east by 



a .Surrogate's office, N. V., Wills and Admr., 1665 to 16S3. Vol. i., p. 431. 



