History of Long Island from its discovery and settlement to the present time; revised and greatly enlarged with aditions and a biography of the author by Charles J. Werner (1918) (14595805097)

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Title: History of Long Island from its discovery & settlement to the present time; revised & greatly enlarged with aditions and a biography of the author by Charles J. Werner

Year: 1918 (1910s)

Authors: Thompson, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1784-1849 Werner, Charles J. (Charles Jolly), b. 1887., editor

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Publisher: New York : Robert H. Dodd

Contributing Library: Boston Public Library

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eneral patent of confirmation was obtained fromGovernor Nicoll, August 13, 1667, in which the bound-aries coincide with those of Kiefts patent of 1645 ^^substance. And July i, 1670, an additional patent wasexecuted by Governor Lovelace, which is as follows: Francis Lovelace, Esqr, one of the Gentlemen of hisMagestys Honorable Privy Chamber, and GovenorGeneral, under his Royal Highness, James, Duke ofYorke and Albany, &c., of all his Territories In America—To all to whom these Presents shall come, sendethGreeting. Whereas, there is a certain Town in the WestRiding of Yorkshire, upon Long Island, commonly calledand known by the name of Gravesend, situate, lying andbeing on or about the Westermost part of the s^ Island,containing a certain quantity or parcel of Land, begin-ning at the mouth of a creek adjacent to Coney Island,and being bounded on the Westward part thereof withthe land heretofore appertaining to Anthony Johnsonand Robert Pennoyer, and so to run as far as the Wester-

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HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND 119 most part of a certain Pond In an old Indian Field on thenorth side of the Plantation of the s^ Robert Pennoyer,and from thence to run direct East as far as a valey, be-ginlng at the Head of a Fly or marsh sometime belongingto the Land of Hugh Gerrltsen, and being bounded onthe south side with the main Ocean, for which s^ quan-tity or parcel of Land, there was heretofore a Pattentor Ground-brief granted from the Dutch Govenor, Wil-liam Kelft, unto several Patentees, thier Associates, andHeirs, Executors, Administrators, Successors or Assigns,and all other appurtenances, as also to put what cattlethey thought fitting to grase and feed upon the affore-mentioned Coney Island, with Liberty to them the s^Patentees to build one or more towns upon the s^ Lands,with many other particulars and privileges, as in the s*^Patent or Ground-brief, bearing date the 19th of Dec,1645, relation being thereunto had. Is at large set forth.Now for a Confirmation unto the present

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