44^ HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Abijah Gilbert on the 24th day of November, 1801, for the purpose of 

 naming and stating the proceedings and accounts relative to the sales 

 and purchase of lands for the use and benefit of the society which is as 

 follows: On the 27th of March, 1800, Jacob Hayt, in behalf of the 

 Society, made a contract with George Codwise for a tract of land which 

 formerly belonged to Thaddeus Rockwell, and engaged to pay the sum 

 of one hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty cents with interest, 

 taking the premises with the incumbrance of two mortgages given on 

 the same by Thaddeus Rockwell to Governor John Jay the other to 

 Sir James Jay. The Board of Trustees agreed with the said Rockwell 

 to pay twenty-two dollars and fifty cents per acre for the land which on 

 survey appeared to be fifty-six acres and one rood, and in a settlement 

 between the said Board and said Rockwell he agreed to pay eighteen 

 dollars towards the extraordinary expense of procuring a deed from Cod- 

 wise and settling the mortgages and for settling the accounts for pasture 

 and other dealings that were agreed to ballance both accounts, that a 

 deed executed by said Codwise bearing date the 10th of May, 1801, 

 conveying the same land to Abijah Gilbert in trust, the said board of 

 trustees ordered said Gilbert to convey by deed for the use of the 

 society the 2nd day of June, 1801, to contain thirty-three acres and one 

 rood of land ; also to convey to Aaron Keeler twenty-three acres which 

 was sold to said Keeler for twenty-three dollars and fifty cents per acre ; 

 the said board for making payment agreeable to contract borrowed, in 

 the month of April, 1800, of Michael Lockwood, five hundred dollars 

 and collected money belonging to the society for lands sold — which ap- 

 pears by the accounts herein stated, and that the principal with the in- 

 terest from April last is due to the said Lockwood, and that there is in 

 the hands of the Trustees to make the payment the following sums : 



Due from Giles Malory, on note $ 66 62 



" " Ebenezer Grummon, on note 42 30 



" " Joseph Webster, on note 22 10 



" " Elisha Avery, on note 13150 



" " Samuel B. Isaacs, contract 68 



" " Jeremiah Keeler, on bond 129 32 



" " Hezekiah De Forest, for rent — , 12 



" " Abijah Gilbert, for a balance on his bonds, 15 53 



" " Jacob Hayt, on balance for rent of land... 41 25 



" " Philander Lawrence, rent of land 5 75 



$534 37* 



a Rec. of Trustees of Presbyterian church, South Salem, vol. I„ pp. 13-14. 



