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Deed -  William Stites - 1705-6


 
To all Christion people to Whome this present writing shall come or in any ways appertaine greeting know Yee that I William Stits of Westbuary in the bounds of Hempstead in Queens County on Nausaw Island Yeoman for & in consideration of seventy five pounds of lawfull money of New York to him in hand paid by Benjamin Smith of the same town County and Island aforesaid at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents the recipt whereof the said William Stits doth acknowledge & himself therewith fully satisfied contented and paid and thereof and of every part and parcell thereof for himself his heirs ex's admr's and every of them doth release acquit and fully discharge him the said Benjamin Smith his heirs ex's admr's and every of them forever by these presents and for other good causes and considerations for him the said William Stits hath given granted alienated enfeoffed assigned assured sold and confirmed and by these presents doth grant alienate enfeoff assine asure sell & confirm unto him the said Benjamin Smith his heirs and assigns forever
 
All that one lott of meadow lying and being situate on the South side of the Island of Nausaw in the township of Hempstead aforesaid at a certain neck called New Bridg being bounded westerly by a lott of meadow that did belong unto Richard Valintine deceased easterly by Richard Ellison southerly by the cove and northerly by the upland Together with a right of upland according unto twenty lengths of fence together with the profits comoditys hereditaments & appurtenances in and to the same lott of meadow and right of upland belonging and every part and parcell thereof To have and to hold all and singular the abovesaid premises unto the sole and only benefit and behoof of him the said Benjamin Smith his heirs and assigns forever and the said William Stits for himself his heirs ex's admr's and every of them that it shall & may be lawfull to and for him the said Benjamin Smith his heirs ex's admr's and every of them forever by virtue of these presents peaceably and quietly to have hold use occupy possess and injoy all and singular the above bargained premises free and clearly acquitted and discharged from all incumbrances & conveyances whatsoever had made moved committed done of suffered to be done at any time or times before the ensealing hereof and I the said William Stits doth further covenant promis bid & oblige himself his heirs ex's & every of them to warrant all the abovesaid premises unto him the sd Benj'n Smith his heirs and assigns and forever by these presents well & truly to defend as witness my hand & seal this 29th day of July 1724

William Stits (seal)
 
Sealed and delevered in the presence of
Benjamin Seaman Jr., Samuel Willis, Jacob Carle
 
Queens County
Memorandum that on the 29th day of October 1771 then John Willis personally appeared before me Valentine H. Peters one of the Judges of the Court of Queens County aforesaid & solemnly declared that he did believe that the hand writing of the grantor Wm Stits was his own hand writing and that the name Benj'n Smith was wrote by himself as a witness to this Deed and having examined the Deed and finding no interlination or rasurs do allow it to be recorded

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


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