APPENDIX, No. XXIX. GRANTS OF LAND BY THE STATE OF NEW YORK, viz: Grant by Letters Patent of the State of New York, to J. Deane and others, 1785. 1790. ... 1790. COPY OF LETTERS PATENT TO JAMES DEANE AND OTHERS, 1785. No. 29. Grants by the State of N. York. To James Deane THE People of the State of New York By the Grace of God Free and Indepen- Appendix. dent, To all to whom these Presents shall come Greeting. Whereas Mark Greaves, Levi Smith, Ichabod Tubbs, Horace Shepherd, George Houseman, David Doolittle, George Inglis Peter Welsh, David Perry, Eliphalet Kellog, Jesse Pardy, James Degolier, Gotlep Peter, Christian Fulmer, Elnathan Rogers, Oliver Deake, Mason Deake and others, 1785. Samuel Ashman, Robert Ayres, Asa Hamlin, Abraham Knap, Daniel Bedwell, Levi Stoughton, Pliny Moor, and James Deane have in pursuance of the Second Section of an act entitled "An Act for granting certain Lands promised to be given as Bounty Lands by Laws of this State and for other purposes therein mentioned" passed the 11th day of May 1784 obtained from Simeon Delbitt Esquire our Surveyor General a certificate that they are entitled to a certain Tract of Land therein mentioned and described and which certificate is in the words and figures following-Surveyor Generals Office Albany 8th July, 1785. I do hereby certify That Mark Greaves Levi Smith, Ichabod Tubbs, Horace Shepherd, George Houseman David Doolittle, George Inglis, Peter Welsh, David Perry, Eliphalet Kellog, Jessie Pardy James Degolier, Gotlep Peter, Christian Fulmer, Elnathan Rogers, Oliver Deake, Mason Deake, Samuel Ashman, Robert Ayres, Asa Hamlin Abraham Knap Daniel Bedwell Levi Stoughton, Pliny Moor and James Dean by virtue of the Act entitled "An Act for raising two Regiments for the defence of this State on Bounties of unappropriated Lands passed March the 20th 1781, and An Act entitled An Act for raising Troops to complete the Line of this in the Service of the United States and the two Regiments to be raised on Bounties of unappropriated Lands and for the further defence of the frontiers of this State passed March the 23d 1782 and in consequence of a Location made agreeable to the said Acts and Certificates lodged in this office properly authenticated are entitled to a tract of Land on the West Side of Lake Champlain, Beginning at a Beach tree marked 3 M 16 March 1785 Standing on the parallel of forty five degrees of North Latitude at the distance of three miles measured on a course North Eighty two degrees West by the Needle from the monument Stone on the West bank of Lake No. 29. 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Champlain on the Side parallel of forty five degrees North Latitude and running from the said place of Beginning South eight degrees West three hundred and forty Grants by the chains and sixty links into the waters of the Great River Chazy to a point bearing South fourteen degrees West Sixty one links from a black Ash tree standing on the and others, 1785. east bank of said river marked 340 chains 60 links 17th March 1785 thence North State of N York. eighty two degrees West three hundred and forty chains and Sixty links to a black ash Stake in a Cedar Swamp marked 340. 60. 20th March 1785 thence North eight degrees east three hundred and forty chains and sixty links to a bass-wood tree standing on the said parallel of forty five degrees North Latitude thirty five. chains from the north bank of the said River Chazy marked 340. 60. 21 March 1785 and thence South eighty two degrees east along said parallel three hundred and forty chains and Sixty links to the place of Beginning Containing eleven thousand six hundred acres And I do further Certify that the said Tract of Land is laid out in a square that the same is not to the best of my belief and information granted to or located by any person prior to the Location above mentioned by virtue of any of the before recited Acts that it was not occupied or improved by any person on or be fore the 25th day of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and that it is no part of the land reserved to the use of the People of this State Simeon De Witt Surveyor Genl. as by the said Certificate directed to his Excellency Governor Clinton and the Honorable the Commissioners of the Land Office and filed in our Secretary's Office reference being thereunto had will appear. And whereas a Caveat has been entered by Udny Hay before our Commissioners of our Land Office in behalf of the Canadian and Nova Scotia Refugees against granting the said lands in the above recited Certificate described to the said Mark Greaves and the other persons therein named and the day appointed for hearing the Parties on the said Caveat having elapsed with the said Udny Hay or any other person appearing to support the said Caveat and our said Commissioners of our said Land Office having thereupon determined that the said Mark Greaves and the other persons in the said above recited Certificate named are entitled to a grant of the land therein described. Now therefore Know Ye that we have given, granted and confirmed and by these presents do give grant and confirm unto the said Mark Greaves, Levi Smith, Ichabod Tubbs, Horace Shepherd, George Houseman, David Doolittle, George Inglis, Peter Welsh, David Perry, Eliphalet Kellog Jesse Pardy, James Degolier, Gotlep Peter, Christian Fulmer, Elnathan Rogers, Oliver Deake, Mason Deake, Samuel Ashman Robert Ayres, Asa Hamlin, Abraham Knap Daniel Bedwell, Levi Stoughton, Pliny Moor and James Dean their Heirs and Assigns all and Singular the aforesaid Tract of Land in the said Certificate of our said Surveyor General mentioned and described as is herein before particularly recited and set forth with all the appurtenances and priviledges to the same belonging. or in any wise appertaining (Excepting and reserving to ourselves all Gold and Silver mines and Salt mines and Salt Springs within the Same. To Have and to hold the above granted premises as a good and indefeasible Estate in fee simple forever On Condition nevertheless that the said Mark Greaves Levi Smith Ichabod Tubbs Horace Shepherd, George Houseman, David Doolittle, George Inglis, Peter Welsh, David Perry, Eliphalet Kellog, Jesse Pardy, James Degolier, Gotlep Peter, Christian Fulmer Elnathan Rogers, Oliver Deake, Mason Deake, Samuel Ashman Robert Ayres, Asa Hamlin, Abraham Knap, Daniel Bedwell, Levi Stoughton, Pliny Moor and James Dean their Heirs or Assigns do settle or cause to be settled as many settlers on the said Land in three years from the date of these presents as there are six hundred acres within the same. In Testimony whereof we have made these our Letters Patent and caused the Great Seal of our State to be affixed. Witness our Trusty and Well-beloved George Clinton Esquire Governor of our said State. Done at our City of New York the fifth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five and in the tenth year of our Independence. GEO: CLINTON No. 29. The preceding was recorded at the request of the within named Pliny Moor; and Appendix. between the eleventh and twelfth lines of this Patent,in page 140, the words and figures, and between the second and third lines of this page the words Salt mines and, Grants by the being respectively interlined, the same agrees with the original-Examined and compared therewith by me ROBT. HARPUR, STATE OF NEW YORK, I certify the preceding to be a true Copy of certain Letters patent as of record in this office, in Book of Patents No 17, page 140, &c. [L. s.] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of this Office, at State of N. York. To James Deane and others, 1785: ARCH'D. CAMPBELL, By Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York, acting as Governor of the said State: It is hereby certified that the preceding copy is attested in due form, and by the proper officer. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed. the Great Seal of this NATHANIEL PITCHER. COPY OF LETTERS PATENT TO F. TURCOT, DATED JANUARY 18, 1790. The People of the State of New York, by the Grace of God Free and Independent, To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Know ye, that We have given, granted, and confirmed, and by these Presents Do give, ToF. Turcot, 1799. grant and confirm unto Francis Turcot, all those two certain tracts of land (being parts of a larger tract situate in the County of Clinton set apart by laws of this State for the Canadian and Nova Scotia Refugees,) known and distinguished in a Map and return of the said larger tract, filed by our Surveyor General in our Secretary's Office, by lots numbered one hundred and eighty-five and ninety seven: Which said lot numbered one hundred and eighty-five begins at the south-east corner of lot number one hundred and eighty-four, and runs thence north eighty-two degrees west sixty four chains and eighty links, then south eight degrees west sixty-four chains and eighty links, then south eighty two degrees east sixty-four chains and eighty links, and then north eighty degrees east sixty-four chains and eighty links to the place of beginning; containing four hundred and twenty acres: And which said lot number Ninety-Seven begins at the north-west corner of Lot number sixty-seven, on the Latitude line of forty-five degrees north, and runs thence North eighty-two degrees West seventy-eight chains and fifty links, to a Patent of Land granted to James Dean and others, then south eight degrees west ten chains and twenty links, then South eighty-two degrees East seventy-five chains and forty links, to the West bounds of Lot number Sixty Eight, then along the West and North Bounds of Lot Number sixty-eight and the West Bounds of Lot Number Sixty-Seven to the place of Begin No. 29. State of N. York. To F.Turcot,1790. Appendix. ning, containing eighty Acres: The said two Tracts together containing five hundred Acres, together with all and Singular the Rights, Hereditaments and AppurteGrants by the nances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining, Excepting and Reserving to ourselves all Gold and Silver mines, and five acres of every hundred Acres of the said Tract of Land for Highways: To Have and To Hold the above described and granted premises unto the said Francis Turcot, his Heirs and Assigns, as a good and indefeasible Estate of Inheritance forever: On Condition Nevertheless that, within the term of seven years, to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the date hereof, there shall be one actual settlement made on the said Tract of Land hereby granted, otherwise these our Letters Patent, and the Estate hereby granted, shall cease, determine, and become void. In Testimony whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the Great Seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed. Witness our Trusty and Well Beloved George Clinton, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the Same, at our City of New York, this eighteenth day of January, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and in the Fourteenth year of our Independence. Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land Office and passed the Secretary's Office the 18th day of January, 1790. ROB'T HARPUR, GEO: CLINTON. Dep. Secretary. STATE OF NEW YORK, I certify the preceding to be a true copy of certain Letters Patent, as of record in this office, in Book of Patents No 22, page 42. [L. S.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Office, at the City of Albany, the 30th day of September, 1828. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, Dep. Secretary. By Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York, acting as It is hereby certified that the preceding copy is attested in due form, and by the proper officer. [L. 8.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Great Seal of this COPY OF LETTERS PATENT TO CLEMENT Gosline, DATED JANUARY 18, 1790. To Clement Gosline, 1790. The People of the State of New York, by the Grace of God Free and Independent, Know ye, that we have given, granted and confirmed, and by these Presents Do Give, Grant, and Confirm unto Captain Clement Gosline, all those two certain Tracts of Land (being parts of a larger tract situate in the County of Clinton, set apart by laws No. 29. Grants by the State of N. York. To Clement Gosline, 1790. of this State for the Canadian and Nova Scotia refugees) known and distinguished in Appendix. a Map and return of the said larger tract filed, by our Surveyor General in our Secretary's Office, by Lots numbered Sixteen and twenty-seven. The said lot number Sixteen Beginning in the Latitude forty-five, in the South Bounds of the Province of Quebec, at the North-West corner of a Tract of eleven thousand six hundred acres, granted to James Dean and others, and runs thence along the said bounds of the Province of Quebec, North eighty two degrees west sixty-four chains and eighty links, then south eight degrees west sixty four chains and eighty links, then south eightytwo degrees east sixty-four chains and eighty links, and then north eight degrees east sixty-four chains and eighty links, to the place of beginning; containing four hundred and twenty acres; and the said Lot number twenty seven, beginning at the north-east corner of Lot number twenty-six, and runs thenee west seventy-nine chains and eighty links, then North ten chains, then east eighty chains and twenty links to the Lake, then southerly along the lake to the place of beginning, containing eighty acres; the said two tracts together containing five hundred acres of land, together with all and singular the Rights, Hereditaments, and Appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining: Excepting and reserving to ourselves all gold and silver mines, and five acres of every hundred acres of the said Tract of Land for Highways: To have and to hold the above described and granted premises unto the said Captain Clement Gosline, his heirs and assigns, as a good and indefeasible estate of Inheritance forever: On Condition Nevertheless that within the term of seven years, to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the date hereof, there shall be one actual settlement made on the said tract of land hereby granted, otherwise these Letters Patent and the estate hereby granted, shall cease, determine, and become void. In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed. Witness our Trusty and Well Beloved George Clinton, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the Navy of the same, at our City of New York, this eighteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety, and in the fourteenth year of our Independence. Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land Office, and passed the Secretary's Office the 18th day of January, 1790. GEO: CLINTON. ROB'T HARPUR, Dep. Secretary. STATE OF NEW YORK, I certify the preceding to be a true copy of certain Letters Patent as of record in this office, in Book of Patents No. 22, page 21. [L. 8.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of this office, Dep. Secretary. By Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York, acting as Governor of the said State: It is hereby certified that the preceding copy is attested in due form, and by the proper officer. [L. S.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Great Seal of this |