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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
Transcription of Sheet 2
Whose Names are as follows; John Bridges, Company and Patentees. — Thus, — John Bridges L.L.D. — Hendrick Tenych — Derick Vanderburgh — John Cholwell — Christopher Denn — Lancaster Symes — Daniel Horan — Philip Rockeby — John Meredith — Benjamin Ashe — Peter Mathews — & Cornelius Christianse . . . . . . . . . .
The first Court of Sessions, for the County of Orange; Was held at Tapon April the 27th 1703, — see Liber A — Also, The first Court of Common Pleas, Was held at Tapon April the 28th 1703 —
After these Courts . . . As the Order, & Due form of Law, had taken place . . . in the County of Orange . . . Some further Speculation, Seemly [purposely] Awakened, and put in motion . . . By the Proprietors of Said Patent . . . And Others [like lost] When Phillip Rockeby . . . it seems, was the first to Open the gate & Lead the Van . . . Of Speculation . . .
Whereupon Phillip Rockeby, Sold His Undivided Right, to Daniel Cromline, John Merritt, & Elias Boudinot, June the 10th 1704 Liber B. Page 9 —
John Bridges L.L.D. Died, June 1704 —
Cornelius Christianse, Sold his Undivided [right] to Derick Vanderburgh Sept. the 8th 1704 —
Hendrick Tenych Sold his Undivided Right, to Daniel Cromline Dec. the 8th 1704 —
Daniel Horran, Sold his Undivided Right to Col. William Merritt April the 12th 1705 — Page 26 —
John Cholwell, Sold his Undivided Right to Adrian Hooghlandt, October the 19th 1706 — page 30 —
The Widow, Anne Bridges Sold One Undivided Three & twentieth part to Adrian Hooghlandt Nov. the 7th 1706 — Liber B. page 33 . . . She also, Sold one Undivided twelfth part, to John Vanhorn July the 24th — 1708 Page 65 . . . However, previous to these three Last mentioned Sales, in March the 30th 1706 The Proprietors of Wawayanda Patent, agreed to --
Transcription of Sheet 3
— To Give, Under Certain Restrictions, Six hundred Acres, to the first Settler of their Own number, Who should make a Settlement, Before the End of May 1709, Page 21 — And there is A traditional [report] Rumor . . . That an Attempt to make An improvement, for a Settlement Was made; But by whom, how far, and where, No one, At present, presumes to tell. — The probability is, that Some Log-hut, was Raised, for the purpose [a rendezvous for the Patentees & their Surveyors] (which as by we trust will make appear) yet no Civilized family had Ever Lived in it, And that the Occasional fires of the Wilderness, had Destroyed . . .
When A pause . . . [of six years from the may 1709] Seemly Insued . . . Among the Patent Speculators and who Were Otherwise, Better Employed, in making out Actual Surveys . . . For the Division — & Subdivisions, of the Said Patent of Wawayanda Among the proprietor — Whom it Seems, Laid Out, With their Surveyors — — What they Called by the Name, of the Precinct of Goshen, in the County of Orange —
And Somewhat Central, in their Wawayanda Patent & in this Precinct of Goshen they Laid Out the Plan of a Village, by an Actual Survey, into Town Lots, of about [sixty or] Eighty Acres in Each Lot, & With a main street passing Between [them] of about one Chain Wide, Which gave them the Name, of the East Division & West Division Lots of the [Town or] Village of Goshen, Which, Together, With Other Surveys, in & of the Subdivision of the Companys Patentee rights As Appears by a Map, On Parchment, Deposited in the Clerks Office, for the County of Orange, many Years Since — Also, See, a Late Map, of the Counties of Orange & Rockland, Whereon are Delineated the Divisions & Subdivisions, of the Patentee Rights, And where it appears, that A Certain trait or Lot of Land, Laying on the Northeasterly Bounds, of the Town Lots, of the Village of Goshen; Which Lot or trait of Land, it is Alleged, Was Surveyed by Peter Berrian & for Christopher Denn One of the Proprietors of Wawayanda Patent. — Which Survey Was made by Peter Berrian, perhaps immediately After, the Lots of the Village of Goshen Was Laid out —
