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upon the maine over against the town of Haerlem, commonly called Bronckse's 

 land, containing 250 morgen or 800 acres of land, besides the meadow thereunto 

 annexed or adjoining, butted and bounded as in the original Dutch ground brief 



and patent of confirmation is set forth ; which said tract of land and meadow, 

 having been by the said Col Lewis Morris long possessed and enjoyed, and hav- 

 ing likewise thereon made good improvement, he, the said Edmund Andross, late 

 governor of our said province, did further, by the said deed or patent, sealed with 

 the seal of our said province, and bearing date as aforesaid, we grant and confirm 

 unto the said Col. Lewis Morris, for his further improvement, a certain quantity 

 of land adjacent unto the said tract of land — which land, with the addition, 

 being bounded from his own house over against Haerlem, running up Haerlem 

 River to Daniel Turner's land, and so along this said land northward to John 

 Archer's line, and from thence stretching east to the land of John Richardson 

 and Thomas Hunt, and thence along their lands southward to the Sound, even so 

 along the Sound about southwest through Bronck's hill to the said Col. Lewis 

 Morris's house — the additional land containing (according to the survey thereof) 

 the quantity of fourteen hundred and twenty acres, to have and to hold the af ore- 

 recited tract of land before possessed by hini, and the additional land within the 

 limits and bounds aforesaid, together with the woods and meadows, both salt, 

 and fresh, waters and creeks, belonging to the said lands, unto the said Col. 

 Lewis Morris, his heirs and assignees forever, under the yearly rent of four 

 bushels of good winter wheat, as by the said deed or patent, registered in our sec- 

 retary's office of our said province of New Tork, &c.,— relation being thereunto 

 had — may more fully and at large appear. And whereas, our loving subject, 

 Lewis Morris, (nephew unto the said Col. Morris, lately deceased, his sole and 

 only heir.) who is now, by right of descent and inheritance, peaceably and quiet- 

 ly seized and possessed of all the aforesaid tracts of land and premises within 

 the limits and bounds aforesaid, hath, by his petition, presented unto our trusty 

 and well beloved Benj. Fletcher, our Captain General and Governor-in-Chief of 

 our said province of New York and territories dependant thereon in America, &c. , 

 prayed our grant and confirmation of all the afore-recited tracts and parcels 

 of land and premises within the limits and bounds aforesaid ; and likewise that 

 we would be graciously pleased to erect the said tracts and parcels of land, within 

 the limits and bounds aforesaid, into a lordship or manor, by the name or title of 

 the manor or lordship of Morrisania, in the county of "Westchester ; and whereas, 

 it is publicly manifest that the said Col. Lewis Morris, deceased, in his lifetime, 

 and our said loving subject, his nephew and sole and only heir since his decease, 

 have been at great charge and expense in the purchasing, settling and improving 

 of the said tracts and parcels of land, whereon considerable buildings have like- 

 wise been made ; and our said loving subject, being willing still to make further 

 improvements thereon — which reasonable request, for his further encouragement, 

 we being willing to grant ; and know ye, that we, of our special grace, certain 

 knowledge, and mere motion, we have given, granted, ratified and confirmed, and 

 by these presents do for us, our heirs and successors, give, grant, ratify and con- 

 firm unto the said Lewis Morris, his heirs and assignees, all the aforesaid tracts 

 and parcels of land within the limits and bounds aforesaid, containing the 

 quantity of one thousand, nine hundred and twenty acres of land, more or less, 

 together with all and evsry the messuages, tenements, buildings, houses, out- 



