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possessions and enjoyment of the premises, Know ye, That by virtue of the commission and authority unto me given by his Royal Highness, I have given, ratified, confirmed, and granted, and by these presents do give, ratify, confirm, and grant, unto Jan Everts, Jan Damen, Albert Cornelissen, Paulus Veerbeeck, Michael Eneyl (Hainelle), Thomas Lamberts, Teunis Guysbert, Bogart and Joris Jacobson, as patentees, for and on the behalf of themselves and their associates, the freeholders and inhabitants of the said town, their heirs, successors, and assigns, all that tract, together with the several parcels of land which already have or hereafter shall be purchased or procured for and on behalf of the said town, whether from the native Indian proprietors or others, within the bounds and limits hereafter set forth and exprest, viz., that is to say, the town is bounded westward on the farther side of the land of Mr. Paulus Veerbeek, from whence stretching southeast, they go over the hills, and so eastward along the said hills to a southeast point which takes in all the lotts behind the swamp, from which said lotts they run northwest to the River1 and extend to the farm, on the t'other side of the hill, heretofore belonging to Hans Hansen, over against the Kicke or Looke-out,2 including within the said bounds and limitts all the lotts and plantations lying and being at the Gowanis, Bedford, Wallaboucht, and the Ferry.—All which said parcels and tracks of land and premises within the bounds and limits afore-mentioned, described, and all or any plantation or plantations thereupon, from henceforth are to bee, appertaine, and belong to the said town of Breucklen, Together with all havens, harbours, creeks, quarryes, woodland, meadow-ground, reed-land or valley of all sorts, pastures, marshes, runs, rivers, lakes, hunting, fishing, hawking, and fowling, and all other profitts, commodities, emoluments, and hereditaments, to the said lands and premises within the bounds and limits all forth belonging, or in any wise appertaining,—and withall to have freedome of commonage for range and feed of cattle and horse into the woods, as well without as within these bounds and limitts, with the rest of their neighbours,3—as also one-third part of a certain neck of meadowground or valley called Sellers neck, lying and being within the limits of

1 According to the New York doctrine, this boundary of the town can only be correct when the tide Is flood ; for, when the water is low, the town is bounded by property belonging to the Corporation of the city of New York, and not by the river.—Furman’s Notes, p. 12.

2 See ante, page 113.

3 This town enjoyed this privilege in common with the other towns on Long Island, and their cattle which ran at large were marked with the letter “N”.—Furman’s Notes, p. 13.