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Deed - Richard, John & William Stites - 1698/9


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
Richards Stits X his marke, John Stits X his marke
Signed seald & deliverd in presence of
Joseph Pettit Samuel Titus
Entered in the record by mee this first day of the first mo. Cald March 1709-10
William Willis Clarke

Source - Records of the towns of North and South Hempstead, Long island, New York - V.1



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