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yielding and paying unto the said John Pell and his heirs, &c, as lords 

 of the said manor, one fat calf on. every four and twentieth day of June 

 (festival of St. John the Baptist) yearly, &c, if demanded, &c." 



JOHN PELL'S GRANT OF NEW ROCHELLE. 



To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall come, John Pell, 

 proprietor of the manor of Pelham, within the county of Westchester, in the 

 province of New York, within the dominion of New England, gentleman, and 

 Rachel his wife, sendeth greeting in our Lord God everlasting. Know tee that 

 the said John Pell and Rachel his wife for and in consideration of the sum of 

 sixteen hundred and seventy-five pounds and twenty-five shillings sterling, 

 current silver money of this province, to him in hand paid and secured to be 

 paid at the, or before, the ensealing and delivery thereof by Jacob Leisler of 

 the city of New York, merchant, the receipt whereof they, the said John Pell 

 and Rachel his wife, do thereby acknowledge themselves to be fully satisfied and 

 contented, and thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof, do hereby freely and 

 clearly acquit and exonorate and discharge the said Jacob Leisler, his heirs, ex- 

 ecutors, administrators, and every of them, by these presents have granted, bar- 

 gained and sold, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell unto the said 

 Jacob Leisler, his heirs and assignees, all that tract of land lying and being 

 within said manor of Pelham, containing six thousand acres of land, and also 

 one hundred acres of land more, which the said John Pell and Rachel his wife, 

 do freely give and grant for the French church erected, or to be erected, by the 

 inhabitants of the said tract of land, or by their assignees, being butted and 

 bounded as herein is after expressed, beginning at the west side of a certain 

 white oak tree, marked on all four sides, standing at high water mark at the 

 south end of Hog Neck, by shoals, harbour, and runs, north-westerly, through 

 the great fresh meadow lying between the road and the sound, and from the 

 north side of the said meadow where the said line crosses the said meadow, to 

 run from thence due north to Bronckes river, which is the west division line 

 between the said John Pell's land aud the aforesaid tract, bounded on the 

 south-easterly by the sound and salt water, and to run east -northerly to a 

 certain piece of salt meadow lying at the salt creek which runneth up to 

 Cedar Tree brook, or Gravelly brook, and is the bounds to southern. Bounded 

 on the east by a line that runs from said meadow north-westerly by marked 

 trees, to a certain black oak tree standing a little below the road, marked on 

 four sides, and from thence to run due north four miles and a half, more or 

 less, and from the north side of the said west line, ending at Bronckes's river, 

 and from thence to run easterly till it meets with the north end of the said 

 eastermost bounds, together with all and singular the islands and islets before 

 the said tract of land lying and being in the sound and salt water, with all 

 the harbors, creeks, rivers, rivuletts, runns, waters, lakes, meadows, ponds, 

 marshes, salt and fresh, swamps, soils, timber, trees, pastures, feedings, en- 

 closures, fields, quarries, mines, minerals, (silver and gold mines only excepted,) 

 fishing, hunting, fowling, hawking, and also all the messuages, houses, tene- 

 ments, barns, mills, mill dams, as they were at the time of the ensealing and 

 delivery of the articles of agreement of sale for said land, bearing date the 

 second day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and 



