Document, 1687 October 20
Document, 1687 October 20
- Title
- Document, 1687 October 20
- Library Location
- New-York Historical Society
- Name
- Limerick, Thomas Dongan, Earl of, 1634-1715 (Author)
- Dowsen, Harman (Addressee)
- Dowsen, Theunis (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- 1687 October 20
- Physical Description
- 3
- Subjects
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Confirms Harman Dowsen and Theunis Dowsen owners of a tract of land of about 250 acres purchased from the Indians in Orange County. Harman Dowsen and Theunis Dowsen shall hold this land in free and common socage according to the tenure of the manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent, paying yearly to his Majesty James II, his heirs and successors three bushels of good sweet marketable wheat at New York on 25 March. From the New York Secretary's Office, Lib. Patents VI, 303f. Certified by Goldsbrow Banyar. Entered before the Commission to settle the boundary between New York and New Jersey, 12 August 1769.
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.12217