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west by the other moiety or half part of the said meadows, still running to the 

 said George Lockhart's, and so to run southerly to the end of the said meadows, 

 nothing excepted or reserved thereof, to the said George Lockhart, his heirs and 

 assigns, but one cart or waine way through the said moiety or half part of the mea- 

 dow aforesaid, which moiety or equal half part of the meadow aforesaid was by 

 mean assurance in the law, conveyed to the said George Lackhart aud Janet, his 

 wife, unto the said Frederick Philips, his Leirs and assigns, to have and to hold the 

 said moiety or equal half part of the said meadows and premises with the apperti- 

 nences unto the said Frederick Philips, his heirs and assigns forever, as by the 

 said grant or patent, sealed with the seal of our said province, and registered in 

 our secretary's office aforesaid, bearing date the said 2"th day of June, in the 

 year of our Lord, 1G87, and as by the said deed of conveyance, under the hands 

 and seals of the said George Lockhart and Janet his wife, bearing date 20th day 

 of February, in the year of our Lord, 1685, relation being thereunto had respect- 

 ively, may more f idly and at large appear ; and whereas, Augustine Graham, 

 our surveyor-general for our said province of New York, &c. , hath by warrant 

 bearing date the 11th of February, in the fourth year of our reign, surveyed and 

 laid out for the said Frederick Philips, a certain small parcel of salt meadows, 

 situate and being on the north side of Tappan creek, in the county of Orange, be- 

 ginning at a certain stake set on the east side of the said creek, and from thence 

 run east 37° 40 min. northerly to Hudson's river, six chains and ninety links, 

 thence along the said river twelve chains and ninety links, south one degree, 

 westerly to the mouth of the aforesaid creek, and from thence along the said 

 creek, west five degrees thirty-five minutes, northerly eleven chains, thence north 

 twelve degrees, eastwardly two chains and forty links, thence east fortj r degrees, 

 southerly three chains forty-five links along the said creek, thence east eleven 

 degrees thirty minutes, southerly two chains twenty links, thence north six de- 

 grees twenly-five minutes, seven chains and seventy links, to the stake where 

 the line first began, being bounded on the north-west by a certain parcel of 

 meadow said to belong to Cornelius Claater, on the east by Hudson's river, on 

 the south and west by the said creek, containing in all six acres three roods and 

 eight perches, as by the return of the survey, bearing date the 19th day of April, 

 in the said fourth year of our reign, and in the year of our Lord, 1692, relation 

 being thereunto had, may more fully aud at large appear, all which several tracts 

 or parcels of land lying together, and bounded and limited in manner hereafter 

 expressed and mentioned, (that is to say), all the said tract and parcels of land 

 that are on the east side of Hudson's river, are bounded on the northward by a 

 creek or river commonly called by the Indians Kightowauk, and by the English 

 Knotrus river, and now Belonging to Stevanus van Cortlandt, Esq. , and so east- 

 ward into the woods along the said creek or river, two English miles ; and from 

 thence upon a direct east line to Bronxes river, and so running southward along 

 the said Bronxes river as it runs, until a direct west line cutteth the south side of 

 a neck or island of land, at a creek or kill called Papparinemo, which divides 

 York island from the main, and so along the said creek or kill as it runs to Hud- 

 son's river, which part of the said creek is called by the Indians Shorackhappok, 

 and continues dividing the said York island from the main, and so from thence 

 to the northward alongst Hudson's river, until it comes into the aforesaid creek 

 or river called by the Indians Kightawank. and by the English Knotrus river, and 



