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To all Christian people to whome these presents shall come William Stits of Hempsted in Queens County on Nashaw Islands sends greetting Know ye that the said William Stits for & in consideration of the sum of six pounds of good currant mony of the Province of New Yorke to him in hand payed & secured to be payed before the ensealling & delivery of these presents by Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju both of Hempsted aforsaid the reiceipt whereof to full content & satisfaction he the said William Stits doth by these presents acknowledge and thereof & every parte thereof for himself his heirs executors & administrators doth acquit exonerate and discharge the the said by Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju their heirs executors administrators and every of them forever by these presents And for divers other good causes & considerations him hereunto moving he the said William Stits hath given granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffed conveyed and confirmed & by these presents doth fully freely clearly and absolutely give grant bargain sell alien enfeaffe convey and confirme unto the said Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju their heirs and assigns forever all that certain right to or grant of eight acres of land containing eight acres as was formerly given and granted unto Richard Stits father of the said William Stits att a generall town meetting held att Hempsted the fourth day of February one thousand six hundred and sixty three lying on the North side Westward of Herricks as apeareth by the records of Hempsted together with all such rights lybertyes imunityes profitts priviledges comodityes emoluments and appurtenances as in any kind appertaineth thereunto with the reversions & remainders thereof & all the estate right title interest inheritance property possession claime & demand whatsoever of him the said William Stits of in and two the same and every parte and parcell thereof to have and to hold the said right and grant of eight acres of land and premises with all and singular the appurtenances thereof unto them the said Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju their heirs & assigns to them and their own sole and proper use benefitt and behoofe from henceforth forever and the said William Stits for himself his heirs executors & administrators doth hereby covenant promise grant and agree to & with the said Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju their heirs and assigns in manner & forme following (that is to say) that att the time of the ensealling and delivery of these presents he the said William Stits is the true and sole & lawfull owner of the above granted right of eight acres of land yet to take up within the township of Hempsted att the Westward of Herricks & stands lawfully seized thereof in his own proper right of good perfect and indefeazeable este of inheritance in fee simple having in himself full power good right and lawfull authority to sell & dispose of the same in manner as aforesaid and that them the said by Jerimiah Smith Ju and John Cornwell Ju their heirs and assigns shall & may hence forth and forever lawfully quietly & peaceably have hold use occupy posses & enjoy the above granted premises with the appurtenances free & clear & clearly acquitted & discharged of & from all and all manner of former & other gifts grants bargains salles leases mortgages joyntures dowers judgments executions entailles forfeitures and of & from other titles troubles charges and encumbrances whatsoever had made committed done or sufered to be done by the said William Stits his heirs or assigns att any time or times before the ensealling and delivery of these presents And further the said William Stits doth hereby covenant promise bind and oblige himself his heirs executors and administrators from henceforth and forever hereafter to warrant and defend all the above granted premises and the appurtenances thereof unto them the said John Cornwell Ju and Jerimiah Smith Ju their heirs and assigns forever against the lawfull claims and demands of all & every person or persons whatsoever and whomsoever In witness whereof the said William Stits hath hereunto sett his hand and fixed his seal the twenty sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ten Willaim Stits (seal) Signed sealed & delivered in presence of us William Willis, Henry Willis, John Willis Memorandum that on the thirtieth day of January 1711 the within named William Stites personaly appeared before mee one of her Majesties of the Peace for Queens County assigned and acknowledged the within written deed to be his free & voluntary act and deed Jno Foster The above written Deed was recorded the twenty & first day of March 1711 by mee William Willis Source - Records of the towns of North and South Hempstead, Long island, New York - V.1 |
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