444 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



leased ten miles of the Oblong or Equivalent lands, which is yet undivided, to 

 and for the use and improvement of the first Presbyterian or Independent minis- 

 ter, that shall be settled and ordained in said town of Salem, and to his succes- 

 sors forever; said land is Bounded as followeth : viz., one piece bounded north 

 by highway, west, Nathan Northrup's land, south by the land of James Brown. 

 East nothing. The other piece tying by Bedford road and is bounded south by 

 said road and the land of Thomas Hyatt, East by the land of Thomas Hyatt and 

 James Brown, north by said Hyatt's land, west by the land of said Thomas 

 Hyatt and Ephraim Colby, to have and to hold said donated, quitted and re- 

 leased premises, with all the privileges and appurtenences to the same belonging 

 or in any wise appertaining we say, we have and by these presents do donate 

 and release the same unto him the said minister and to his successors in the 

 ministry in said town forever from us our heirs, executors and administrators 

 for him the said minister and his successors to take and improve to their benefit 

 and behoof ; in testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 

 twenty-third day of December, seventeen hundred and fifty-one, and in the 

 twenty-fifth year of our Sovereign Lord George the second, King & signed, 

 sealed and Delivered. 

 In presence of 



JosEPn Keeler, Joseph Keelee, 



Benjamin Rockwell, Samukl Smith, 



John Bouton, Thomas Hyatt, 



Uda Smith (his mark), Benjamin St. John, 



Udy Tongue (her mark), Jonah Smith, 



who see Benjamin Benedict sine, Nathan Saint John, 



Ezekiel Hawley, James Benedict, 



Joseph Northrup, Thomas Rockwell, 



Nathan Olmstead, Samuel Smith, 



Thadeus Crane, Timothy Keeler, 



Benjamin Benedict, Jabish Smith, 



Benjamin Hoyt, Thomas Smith, 



Mathew Seamore, Ebenezer Smith, 



Jonah Keeler. 



" Be it remembered that on the sixteenth day of November, seventeen hundred 

 and seventy-four, there appeared before me Caleb Fowler, Esq , one of the 

 Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas for the CouDty of Westchester, 

 Benjamin Rockwell, one of the witnesses to the within deed of sale, and on his 

 oath declared that he see all the grantors to the said deed, excepting Benjamin 

 Benedick, seal and deliver the same as their free, voluntary act and deed, for the 

 usestherein mentioned,and likewise Ezekiel Hawley, oue of the other witnesses to 

 said deed, appeared before me at the same time, and on his oath declared he see 

 the said Benjamin Benedick seal and deliver the said deed as his free 



deed for the use therein mentioned, and 1 having inspected said deed and 

 find no material mistake or interlineation therein, and I allow the same to be 

 recorded. CALEB FOWLER."* 



a Copied from the original in possession of the clerk of the Board of Trustees of the 

 Presbyterian Society, South Salem. On the back of the document is this endorsement, 

 "Proprietors Deed.'' We are not aware that this deed has ever been recorded. It certainly 

 was nut in 1854 when the editor havingmade a copy of it by permission of the then clerk of 

 the Trustees (Jacob Webster) had it taken out of his hands and destroyed. The present 

 copy was made through the politeness of Cyrus Lawrence, the second, Esq., in 1874. 



