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the limits aforesaid unto him the said Frederick Philips one of the parties afore- 

 said, together with all that one full and equal third part of all and singular - the 

 houses, out-houses, hams, stables, mills, mill-dams, buildings, fences and edi- 

 fices thereon t r< Cted and built ; and likewise one full third part of all and singular 

 the waters, wat. r-courses, streams, woods, underwoods, fishing, fowling, hawk- 

 ing, hunting, bereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any 

 way appertaining, to have and to hold unto the said Frederick Philipse, his heirs 

 and assigns forever, as by the said deed or indenture, relation being thereunto 

 had, may more fully and at large appear ; and whereas, the said Geertje Lewis, 

 executrix of the last will and testament of Thomas Lewis, late of New York, 

 mariner, her late husband, deceased, and Lodivick Lewis, Barrent Lewis, Leon- 

 ard Lewis, Katharine Lewis and Thomas Lewis the children and co-heirs of said 

 Thomas Lewis and Geertje his wife, by a certain deed of indenture, sealed with 

 the seal bearing date the 12th day of June, in the year of our Lord 16S6, did, for 

 the consideration therein mentioned, grant, bargain and sell, all that the full 

 one-third part of all and singidar the said tract of land afore recited, decribed and 

 bounded with the limits aforesaid, unto him, the said Frederick Philips, one of 

 the parties aforesaid, together with all that one full and equal third part of all 

 and singular the houses, out-houses, barns, stables, mills, mill-dams, buildings 

 fences and edifices thereon erected and built, and likewise one full third part of all 

 and singular the water, water-courses, streams, woods, underwoods, fishing, fowl - 

 ing, hunting, hawking, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or 

 in any wise appertaining, to have and to hold unto the said Frederick Philips, his 

 heirs and assigns forever, as by the said deed or indenture, relation being thereunto 

 had, may more full}* and at large appear ; and whereas, the Hon. Sir Edmund 

 Andross, late governor of our said province of New York, &c, by a certain writing 

 or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province, bearing date the first day 

 of April, in the year of our Lord, 1680, pursuant to the authority in him then 

 residing, did give and grant unto the said Frederick Philipse, a certain tract or 

 parcel of land, beginning at a creek or river called by the Indians, Pocanteco or 

 or "Wackandeco, with power thereon to set a mill or mills, with a due portion of 

 land on each side, adjoining unto the said river, lying within the bounds of the 

 Indians laud at Wickers creek, on the east side of the Hudson river, which said 

 Indian land, was by the said Frederick Philips purchased from the said native 

 Indian proprietors thereof, by the licence and approbation of the said Sir Ed- 

 mund Andross; and the said Indian proprietors did, in the presence of Sir Ed- 

 mund Andross aforesaid, acknowledge to have received full satisfaction of him 

 the said Fred, rick Philips for the said land adjoining, to each syde of the creek 

 or river aforesaid, which said land is situate, lying and being on each side of the 

 6aid creek or river, north and south 1600 treads or steps which at 12 feet to the 

 rod, makes 400 rod, and runs up into the country so far as the said creek or river 

 goeth, with t s proviso or restriction that if the creek or river called by the 

 Indians, Nippiorha, and by the charters Yonkers creek or kill shall come within 

 the space of land of 400 rods on the south side of the aforenamed creek or river, 

 that shall extend no farther than the said creek or river of Nippiroha, but the rest 

 to be so far up into the country on each side of the said creek or river called Po- 

 canteco as it runs, being about north-east, to have and to hold all the aforesaid 

 recited tract or parcel of land unto him the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and 



