70S HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



William Cornwall's land; southerly, by Benjamin Kipp's land; easteily, 

 by John Brady's land and Joseph Week's land," &c. 



On the ioth of November, 1763, Levinus Clarkson, (merchant,) and 

 Anne, his wife, late of the city of Amsterdam, (now, or late, both resid- 

 ing at Voorburgh, near the Hague,) by David Clarkson, of the City of 

 New York, their attorney, granted and released to Benjamin Smith, 

 Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, for the sum of ^1025 " all that one 

 full and equal undivided tenth part of the West Patent, granted 14th 

 of Feb., 1 701," &c; containing in all, about 12,300 acres, &c, in 

 the following manner : — 



A RELEASE FROM LEVINUS AND ANNE CLARKSON TO BENJA- 

 MIN SMITH AND OTHERS. 

 This Indextukh, made the tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord, 

 one thousand, seven hundred and sixty-three, between Levinus Clarkson, late of 

 the city of Amsterdam, merchant, and Anne Clarkson, late of the same place, 

 spinster, (now, or late, both residing at Voorburgh, near the Hague,) by David 

 Clarkson, of the City of New York, merchant, their attorney of the first part, 

 and Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton of the County of West 

 Chester in the Province of New York, yeomen, and their associates of the second 

 part ; Whereas, His most gracious majesty, King William the Third, of glorious 

 memory, by his letterspatent under the great seal of the Province of New Y'ork, 

 bearing date the fourteenth day of February, in the fourteenth year of his reign, 

 granted unto Robert Waters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heath- 

 cste, Matthew Clarkson, John Chollwell, Richard Slater, Lancaster Syms, Rob- 

 ert Lurting and Barne Cosens, and to their heirs and assigns forever, All that, a 

 certain Tract of Land, in the County of Westchester, bounded northerly by the 

 manor of Cortlandt ; easterly, with Bedford line of three miles square, the 

 White Field and Byram River ; southerly, by the land of John Harrison Rye, 

 line stretching to Byram River aforesaid, and the White Plains ; and westerly 

 by Brunk's River and the manor of Philipsburgh, (excepting out of the bounds 

 aforesaid all the land within Richbell's Patents.) And, whereas the said Levin- 

 us and Anne Clarkson are entitled to one-tenth part of the lauds in and by the 

 said Letters Patent granted ; and whereas the said Levinus Clarkson and Anne 

 Clarkson, by their certain Letter, or Power of Attorney under their hands and 

 seals, duly executed, bearing date the ninth day of March, in the year of our 

 Lord, one thousand and seven hundred and fifty-four, made, constituted, or- 

 dained and appointed their Nephews, Samuel Hazard and Matthew Clarkson, 

 both of the City of Philadelphia and Province of Pennsylvania, merchants ; and 

 Freeman Clarkson and the said David Clarkson, both of the city of New Y'ork, 

 aforesaid, merchants, them, and each of them, their and each of their true, suffi- 

 cient and lawful attorney and attornies, jointly and severally, for them, and each of 

 them, and in their name or names, to enter and make any entrj' or entrys into all 

 and singular their and each of their lands, tenements and hereditaments, situate, 

 lying or being in the respective counties of West Chester, Orange and Ulster, in 

 the Province of New York, aforesaid, or elsewhere, and also for them and intheii 



