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said red cedar tree another due easterly line running into the woods twenty 

 English miles, and from thence along the partition line between our Colony of 

 Connecticut and this our Province, mitil you come into the place where the first 

 easterly line of twenty miles doth come — the whole being bounded on the east 

 by the said partition line between our said Colony of Connecticut and this our 

 Province, and on the south by the northerly line of the manor of Phillipsburgh 

 to the southward of Kightawanck Creek aforesaid, and on the west by the said 

 Hudson's river, and on the north from the aforesaid red cedar tree by the south 

 line of the land of Adolph Phillips, and also of a certain parcel of meadow 

 lying and being situate upon the west side of the said Hudson's river, within 

 the said high lands over against the aforesaid hill called Anthony's nose, begin- 

 ning on the south side of a creek called by the Indians Sinkapogh, and so along 

 the said creek to the head thereof, and then northerly along the high hills, as 

 the river runneth, to another creek called Apinnapink, and from thence along 

 the said creek to the said Hudson's river, which certain tract of land and meadow 

 our said loving subject is now actually seized and possessed thereof, and doth 

 hold the same of us by virtue of sundry grants heretofore made unto him by Col. 

 Thomas Dongan, late Governor of our said Province, and whereon our said 

 loving subject hath made considerable improvement, having been at great cost, 

 charge and expense in the purchasing the said tract of land and meadows 

 from the native Indians, as well as in the settling a considerable number of 

 families thereon, and being willing to make some further improvement thereon, 

 doth by his said petition further request and pray that we would be graciously 

 pleased to erect the aforesaid tract of land and meadows within the limits and 

 bounds aforesaid into a lordship or manor of Cortlandt, which reasonable re- 

 quest for the future encouragement of our said loving subject, we being willing 

 to grant : Know ye, that of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere 

 motion, we have given, granted, ratified and confirmed, and by these presents 

 do for us, our hens and successors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto our said 

 loving subject, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, all the aforesaid certain parcel and 

 tracts of land and meadow within their several and respective limits and bounds 

 aforesaid, together with all and every of the messuages, tenements, buildings, 

 barns, houses, out-houses, stables, edifices, orchards, gardens, inclosures, fences, 

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

 marshes, pools, ponds, lakes, fountains, waters, water courses, rivers, rivulets, 

 runs, streams, brooks, creeks, harbors, coves, inlets, outlets, islands of meadow, 

 necks of land and meadow, peninsulas of land and meadow, ferries, fishing, 

 fowling, hunting and hawking, and the fishing in Hudson's river, so far as the 

 bounds of the said land extends upon the same, quarries, minerals, (silver and 

 gold mines only excepted, ) and all other the rights, members, liberties, privil- 

 eges, jurisdictions, pre-eminences, emoluments, to the afore recited certain 

 parcels or tracts of land and meadows within their several and respective limits 

 and bounds aforesaid, belonging or in any ways appertaining or accepted, re- 

 puted, taken, known, or occupied as part, parcel or member thereof, to have and 

 to hold all the afore recited certain parcels and tracts of land and meadows 

 within their several and respective limits and bounds aforesaid, together with all 

 and every of the messuages, tenements, buildings, barns, houses, out-houses, sta- 

 bles, edifices, orchards, gardens, enclosures, fences, pastures, fields, feedings, 



