472 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



houses, barae, barracks, stables, mills, mill dams, mill bowles, orchards, gardens, 

 fences, pastures, fields, feedings, woods, underwoods, trees, timber, meadows, 

 (ficsh and salt,) marshes, swamps and pools, ponds, waters, water courses, 

 brooks, rivulets, baths, inlets, outlets, islands, necks of land and meadow, penin- 

 sulas of laud and meadow, ferries, passages, fishing, fowling, hunting, and hawk- 

 ing, quarries, mines, minerals, (silver and gold mines excepted,) and all the 

 rignts, liberties, privileges, jurisdictions, royalties, hereditaments, benefits, profits, 

 advantages and appurtenances whatsoever to the afore-recited tracts, parcels and 

 necks of land, and mill, within the limits and bounds aforesaid belonging, ad- 

 joining, or in any way appertaining, or accepted, reputed, taken, known or 

 occupied, as part, parcel or member thereof, to have or to hold all the aforesaid 

 reeited tracts and parcels of land within the limits and bounds aforesaid, con- 

 taining the quantity of onethousand nine hundred and twenty acres of land, more 

 or less, together with all and every the messuages, tenements, buildings, bouses, 

 out-houses, barns, barracks, stables, mills, mill dams, mill houses, orchards, gar- 

 dens, fences, pastures, fields, feediugs, woods, underwoods, trees, timber, 

 meadows, fresh and salt, marshes, swamps, pools, ponds, waters, water courses, 

 brooks, rivers, rivulets, streams, creeks, coves, harbors, bridges, baths, strands, 

 inlets, outlets, islands, necks of laud and meadow, peninsulas, land and meadow, 

 ferries, passages, fishing, fowling, hunting and hawking, quarries, mines and 

 minerals, (silver and gold mines excepted,) and all the rights, liberties, privileges, 

 jurisdictions, royalties, hereditaments, tolls, and benefits, profits, advantages, and 

 appurtenances whatsoever, to the afore-recited tracts, parcels aud necks of land 

 and mill within the limits and bounds aforesaid, belonging, adjoining, or in any 

 appertaining or accepted, reputed, taken, known unto him, the said Lewis Morris, 

 his heirs and assignees, to the sole and only proper use benefit and behoof of him 

 the said Lewis Morris, his heirs and assignees forever, and moreover; that if our 

 further special grace, certain knowledge, and mear motion, we have brought it 

 according to the reasonable request of our said loving subject to erect all the 

 afore-recited tracts and parcels of land and premises within the limits and bounds 

 aforesaid into a lordship and manor; and therefore, by these presents, we do, for 

 us, our heirs and successors, erect, make and constitute all the afore-recited 

 tracts and parcels of land within the limits and bounds afore-mentioned, together 

 with ail and every the above granted premises, with all and every their appur- 

 tenances, unto one lordship or manor, to all intents and purposes, and 'tis our 

 royal will and pleasure, that the said lordship and manor shall from henceforth 

 be called the lordship or manor of Morrisania ; and know yee, that we reposing 

 especial trust and confidence in the loyalty, wisdom, justice, prudence, and cir- 

 cumspection of our said loving subjects, do, for us, our heirs and successors, give 

 and grant unto the said Lewis Morris, and to the heirs and assinees of him the 

 said Lewis .Morris, full power and authority at all times forever hereafter, in the 

 said lordship or manor, one court-leet, and one court-barron, to hold and keep at 

 such time and times, and so often yearly as he or they shall see meet, and all 

 fines, issues and amerciaments, at the said court lect and court-barron, to be 

 holden within the said lordship or manor, to be set, forfeited or employed, or pay- 

 able, or happening at any time to be payable by any of the inhabitants of or in 

 the said lordship or manor of Morrisania, or the limits and bounds whereof, and 

 also all and every of the power and authority thereiu-bei'ore mentioned, for the 



