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a quit rent for the same yearly, and every year, the value of eight bushels of 

 winter wheat, upon the five and twentieth day of March, if demanded, unto his 

 Royal Highness and his heirs, or to such governor or governors as shall from 

 time to time he appointed and set over them. Given under my hand and seal, 

 at Fort James, in New York, on Manhattans Island, the 16th day of October, 

 in the twentieth year of the reign of our sovereign, Lord Charles the Second, 

 by the grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, king, defender 

 of the faith, &c, &c, Anno Domini, 1668. Fkanois Lovelace. 



In 1669 we find John Richbell, and Anne his wife, conveying a certain 

 portion of land in Mamaroneck to Margaret Parsons.* 



On the 4th of March, 1669, John Richbell of Mamaroneck, in New 

 Yorkshire, gentleman, with Anne his wife, conveys land in this town to 

 John Bassett. 



By a deed bearing date the 23d of April, 1669, John Richbell, pro- 

 prietor of Mamaroneck, settles the following jointure upon his wife, 

 Anne Richbell, viz : " all that certain parcell or tract of land where he 

 now lives, called the East Neck, and to begin at the westward part 

 thereof at a certain creek lying, being, and adjacent by and betwixt the 

 neck of land commonly called the Great Neck, and the said East Neck, 

 and so to run eastward as far as Mamaroneck river, including therein 

 betwixt the two lines all the land as well north into the woods above 

 Westchester path, twenty miles, as the lands below ye path, south and 

 towards ye river, &c, &c. ; ' 6 



The following year we find the patentee investing his son-in-law, 

 James Mott, in a small piece of the Mamaroneck lands, for which the 

 latter paid to the crown the annual quit rent of one bushel of wheat. 

 James Mott subsequently assigned all his right, title and interest in the 

 same to John Wescot. 



The following warrant " for ye fetching Mr. John Richbell to town 

 a prisoner," occurs in the assize records : 



These are in his majesties name to authorize and impower you to seize upon 

 ye person of John Richbell of Mamaroneck, in what place soever he shall be; 

 found within this government, he being a prisoner under arrest for debt in this, 

 city, from which place he hath absented himself contrary to his engagement and 

 that you cause him to be brought back hither to answer ye several suites of his 

 creditors, and to abide the judgment of court therein according to law, and all 

 officers or others whom this may concerne are to be ayding and assisting herein 

 as occasion shall require, for the doing whereof this my special warrant shall be 

 to you and them a sufficient discharge. Given under my hand and seal at Fort 

 James in New Yorke, this 30th day of June, 1671. Francis Lovelace, 



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To Mr. Allard An thony, sheriff of the city of New York, or his deputy. <* 



a Co. Rec. Lib, A. 



6 Co. Rec. Lib. A. 238. This conveyance was to John Ryder. 



c Alb. Assize Rec. p. 391. 



