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To all Christian people to whome these presents shall
come or any wise appertain greeting know yee that I Richards Stits of
Westbury in the bounds of Hempsted on Long Island alias Nashaw in Queens
County in the Province of New York do by these presents give grant
bargaine sell alienate release and deliver from mee my heirs & assigns
unto my son William Stits of the Town County Island & Province aforesaid
to him his heirs & assigns ye equall moity or half parte of my hundred
acres of wood land lying in the north woods near the Millstone Rock & also
ye timber & appurtenances thereon with halfe my right of commonage and
undevided in the bounds of Hempsted and also be itt known to all me yt I
John Stites of ye Town County Island & Province aforesaid doe hereby give
grant bargain sell alienate release and deliver from mee my heirs and
assigns the other moity of the said hundred acres of land together with
the timber and appurtenances as itt is worded to mee in a deed of gift
from my father Richard Stits all which two parcells of land &
appurtenances wee the said Richard Stits and John Stits doe by these
presents give grant alienate release and deliver from us our heirs and
asigns unto the said William Stits to him his heirs & assigns to have & to
hold forever in consideration of full satisfaction reiceived and in
testimony of the premises wee have hereunto sett to our hands & fixed our
seals January the 2d anno domini 1698-9 Source - Records of the towns of North and South Hempstead, Long island, New York - V.1 |