description of property bequeathed to Philip Gilbert Van Wyck by Philip Van Cortlandt
Subject
granting of the "salt meadow"
Subject Person/Organization
Philip Gilbert Van Wyck, Philip Van Cortlandt (1749-1831)
Context
n.d.
Collection
Van Cortlandt Manuscript Collection
Transcription
Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1268
OBJECT NAME Abstract of Will
DATE n.d.
AUTHOR Philip G. Van Cortlandt
RECIPIENT Philip Gilbert Van Wyck
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Philip Cortlandt Van Wyck
PLACES the Salt Meadow
KEYWORDS granting of possession of the “Salt Meadow” to Philip “Cortlandt”
Van Wyck by Philip Van Cortlandt
Abstract. Will Philip Van Cortlandt
I give and bequeath unto Philip Cortlandt Van Wyck / My God son, the son of my nephew Ph. G. Van Wyck, the / Salt Meadow at the Southwest part of this farm / Now in my possession called the [Round] Island / Meadow, being bounded by the Meadows Creek the / upland and the ditch heretofore made by my / fathers order Some time before his decease, and / on the west by the Hudson River, continuing / about twelve acres including the Round Island / be the same more or less. to him + his heirs + / assigns for ever
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