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on the seacoast: together with all arable lands, meadows^ pMimmf 

 waters, trees, wood, underwood, and the ground and soil thereof, mines^ 

 minerals, quarries, ways. Waters, water- courses, forests, chases, parks, 

 warrens, fishings, fisheries, and all and singular the liberties and profits of 

 the said land, or any part thereof, deemed or known as part or member 

 with their and every of their appurtenances, to have and to hold the 

 same, unto the said Samuel Shepherd, Peter Shepherd^ and Stanislaui^ 

 Thomas Haiy, their heirs and assigns forever, as tenants in common, and 

 not as joint tenants. i\nd we do hereby declare that it shall be lawful 

 for the said Samuel Shepherd, Peler Shepherd, and Stanislaus Thomas 

 Haly, their heirs and assigns, on the said tract or district to erect houses 

 and other buildings, and to introduce foreigners to settle upon and colo- 

 nize the said tract or district, and to cultivate the land thereof; and further j. 

 that it shall and may be lawful for the said Samuel Shepherd, Peter 

 Shepherd^ and Stanislaus Thomas Haly, their heirs and assigns, and the 

 inhabitants of the said tract or district freely to pass and repass to and 

 from the said tract or district, and to navigate all rivers and waters run- 

 ning through the said tract or district, or communicating therewith or 

 with any ports thereof; and to cut the timber and underwood on the said 

 tract or district of land, and to hold and carry away the same,- and to^ 

 hunt and fish, and the produce of such huntings and fishings to hold 

 and carry away as their own proper goods and chattels without the lety 

 suit, or hinderance of ns or our subjects. And we do hereby declare 

 that we will not at any time hereafter impose any taxes, dues, or customs 

 upon the said Samuel Shepherd, Peter Shepherd, Stanislaus Thomas 

 Haly, their heirs or assigns, and that we and* our subjects will not trouble 

 or molest the same, but will at all times do all things which may tend to 

 their succor and protection. 



Given under our hand and seal the twenty- fourth day of January, one 

 thousand eight hundred and thirty- nine, and in the fourteenth of our 

 reign, and then executed on paper in the presence of these witnesses, to 

 wit: J. M. Daly, G. C. Shepherd, G. Vize, H. Boachet, Robert Haly^ 

 and S. T. Haly, jr., and now re-executed on parchment, as a duplicate^- 

 the 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord and in the year of 

 our reign as aforesaid. 



ROBERT CHARLES FREDERIOK. 



Signed; sealed, and delivered in the presence of— » 

 George Vize, 

 f. bouchet, 

 Robert Haly, 

 Thomas Lowry Robinson, 

 General Peter Slam. 



Be it remembered that, on the 24th day of January, 18cJ9, peaceafjk 

 and quiet possession of the lands, with hereditaments within mentioned ^ 

 to be granted and enfeoflfed, was taken and had by the within named 

 Samuel Shepherd, Peter Shepherd, and Stanislaus Thomas Haly, and by 

 the said Robert Charles Frederick delivered to the said Samuel Shepherd/ 



