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Billop his Heires and Assignes unto the proper use and behoofe of 
him the said Capt Christopher Billop his Heires and Assignes 
forever Hee making Improvement of the said Land according to 
Law, and continuing in obedience and Conforming himselfe accord- 
ing to the Lawes of this Government and Yeilding and Paying 
therefore Yearely and every yeare unto his Royall Highnesse use 
as a Quitt Rent Twenty Bushells of good Winter Wheat unto such 
Officer or Officers in Authority there as shall bee Empowered to 
receive the same Given under my Hand and Sealed with the Seale 
of the Province in New York the 25". day of March in the 28%. 
-. Yeare of his Ma"*s, Reigne Annog Dm 1676. 
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Record 6 Patents 229-234 (Old p. 230-234) (Bentley Manor 
. patent 1687) 
Recorded for Cap‘. Christopher Buillop 
Thomas Dongan Cap‘. Gen". Govern’. in Chiefe and Vice Ad- 
mirall in and over the Province of New Yorke and Territoryes 
Depending thereon in America under his most Sacred Majesty 
James the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland 
ffrance and Ireland Defender of the faith etc: To all to whom these 
Presents shall come Sendeth Greeting Whereas Phillip Welles 
Esq Surveyor Generall hath by my Order Surveyed and Layd out 
for Cap’. Christopher Billop a Certaine Neck of Land being 
Scituate and Lyeing upon the West end of Staten Island in the 
County of Richmond and knowne by the Name of ... Begin- 
ning upon the North side of a Creeke Opposite to the Land of 
Gabriel Minvielle and to the South of the Highway left by the 
Land of Anthony ffountaine Crossing the Creeke and so Runns by 
the maine River to the Bay and so by the Bay to A Pond by the 
Highland next to Regroons Creeke to a marked Tree upon the 
Beach and on the East side of the Pond and so Stretching in 
Woods by a Line of Marked Trees which is the West Bounds of 
the Land of William Johnson North halfe a Point Westerly Sev- 
enty Chains to a Small Brooke which is the South Bounds of the 
Land of Obadiah Holmes and so by the Runn but upon a Streight 
Line Westerly to the Southeast Corner of the Land of Anthony 
ffountaine and so by the Highway marked out by his Land to the 
River or Sound where first begunn including all the Meadow about 
the Creeke Except three Acres belonging unto the Land of 
