Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1825
OBJECT NAME Agreement
DATE April 20, 1809
AUTHOR Pierre Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT Solomon Tellor
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE John Knites, Steven Van Cortlandt (deceased), Frederick Philips
(deceased)
PLACES “Kicktawank Cove”, Croton River, patent of John Knites, Hudson
River, Philip’s property (Philipsburg Manor),
KEYWORDS water rights, fishery rights, agreement to land use, islands,
isthmus, meadows, marshes,
Aprill 20 - 1809
This is to Certifie Whom it may Concern / Know ye That I Pierre Van Cortandt [^ for the Value Received] have This / day agreed with Solomon Tellor and Rented / out to him Untill the first day of January next / being one Thousand Eight hundred and Ten – / all the Water of Kicktawank Cove and Croton / River with the fisherly thereof Agreable to / the Patents of John Knites And to the Patent / of the manor of Cortlandt Granted Unto Coll’l / [^ Steven Van Cortlandt] Deceased Which Said Patents and bounded / Southerly by the Land of Frederick Phillips / Deceased And so on Into hudson’s [^ River] and along / up hudsons River to Where the Patent begins / Including all Islands Ismufses meadow [^ marshes] and / Necks of Land Juting and Extending into / hudsons River To gether with the fisherry Thereof / Excepting hereout a Right of fishing with my / Nett or General Cortlandt nett and no other / and Should there be any opposifion or Trefspafsing / on the Premifses I do hereby Ingage to bear him / [^ Solomon Tellor] harmlefs In All Legal Prosicutions agreable / to the word of the Above Recited Intent.
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[LABEL]
Pierre Van Cortlandt
April 1809
Croton Fishery
[DOODLES & ILLUSTRATIONS - NOT TRANSCRIBED]Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
