Name/Title
Captain William Bull III three tracks of lots date 1790Entry/Object ID
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William BullScope and Content
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW-YORK, by the Grace of GOD, free and Independent: TO ALL to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: KNOW YE, that, in pursuance of an Act of our Legislature, passed the sixth day of April, one Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety; entitled "An act to carry into effect the concurrent resolutions and Acts of the Legislature, for granting certain lands, promised to be given as bounty Lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned," WE HAVE Given, Granted and confirmed, and by these Presents, DO Give, Grant and Confirm unto Captain William Bull ALL those Three certain tracts or lots of land, situate lying and being in the the county of Montgomery, and known and distinguished on Maps of the Townships in which they respectively lie, (filed by our Surveyor General, in our Secretary's Office, agreeable to law) as follows, to wit, by lot number Eighty Six in the Township of Hannibal Containing Six hundred Acres, Lot Number Seventy Nine in the Township of Ulysses Containing Six hundred Acres, and Lot Number Fourteen in the Township of Tully Containing Six hundred acres: The said Three Lots together Containing one thousand Eight hundred Acres:
TOGETHER with all and singular the rights, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging, or in any wise appertaining; EXCEPTING and RESERVING to ourselves all gold and silver mines and also five acres of every hundred acres of the said tracts or lots of land for high ways: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above described and granted premises unto the said Captain William Bull his heirs and assigns as a good and indefeasible estate of inheritance forever. ON CONDITION NEVERTHELESS that within the term of seven Years to be computed from the first day of January next ensuing the date hereof, there shall be one actual settlement made on the said tracts or lots of land hereby granted, for every six hundred acres thereof, otherwise these our Letters Patent, and the estate hereby granted, shall cease determine and become void.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF WE have caused these our Letters to be made Patent, and the great Seal of our said State, to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS our Trusty and well-beloved GEORGE CLINTON, Esquire, Governor of our said State, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia, and Admiral of the navy of the same, at our City of New-York, this Ninth day of July In the Year of our LORD, one thousand seven hundred and Ninety and in the fifteenth year of our INDEPENDENCE.
Approved of by the Commissioners of the Land-Office, and passed the Secretary's-Office, the 22nd day of December 1790.
[Signed] Robt. Harpur D Secry
[Signed] Geo: Clinton
