_Deed from William Morris and wife to the Corporation of New-York._
This Indenture made the twelfth day of October, in the sixth year of the
reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady William and Mary, by the grace of
God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King and Queen,
defenders of the faith, &c. and in the year of our Lord one thousand six
hundred and ninety-four, between William Morris, now of the ferry, in
the bounds of the town of Breuchlen, in Kings County, on Long-Island,
Gentleman, and Rebecca his wife of the one part, and the Mayor, Aldermen
and Commonalty of the City of New-York, of the other part, Witnesseth,
that the said William Morris, by and with the consent of Rebecca his
said wife, testified by her being a party to the sealing and delivery of
these presents, for, and in consideration of a certain sum of good and
lawful money to him, at and before the sealing and delivery hereof, by
the said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty, in hand well and truly paid,
the receipt whereof he the said William Morris doth hereby acknowledge,
and thereof and therefrom and of and from all and every part thereof, he
doth hereby acquit, exonerate and discharge the said Mayor, Aldermen and
Commonalty, and their successors forever, hath granted, bargained, sold,
assigned, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant,
bargain, sell, assign, convey and confirm unto the said Mayor, Aldermen
and Commonalty of the said city of New-York, and their successors
forever, All that messuage or dwelling house and lot of ground thereunto
adjoining and belonging, with the appurtenances, situate, lying and
being at the ferry, in the bounds of the town of Breucklen, in Kings
County aforesaid, now and late in the possession of him, the said
William Morris; as also one small house, now in the possession of one
Thomas Hock, lying in the said City of New-York, over against the ferry
aforesaid, Together with all and singular houses, barns, stables, yards,
backsides, wharfs, easements, benefits, emoluments, hereditaments, and
appurtenances to the same messuage or dwelling house and premises
belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and
reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and profits of all
and singular the premisses and the appurtenances, and all the estate,
right, title interest, property, possession, claim and demand of him the
said William Morris and Rebecca his said wife, of, in, unto or out of
the said messuage or dwelling house and premises, or, of, in, unto, or
out of, all or any part or parcel thereof, and all and singular grants,
deeds, escripts, minuments, writings and evidences, touching, relating
to or concerning the above-mentioned, to be bargained, messuage or
dwelling house and all and singular, the premises with the hereditaments
and appurtenances to the same belonging, or any part thereof, unto the
said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, aforesaid,
and their successors unto the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the
said Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York aforesaid,
their successors and assigns forever. In witness, &c.[28]
_A Warrant for enforcing the payment of a town tax in the town of
Brooklyn._
Whereas there was an order or towne lawe by the ffreeholders of the
towne of Brooklyn, in Kings County aforesaid, the 5th day of May, 1701,
ffor constituting and appointing of Trustrees to defend the rights of
their quondam common wood lands, and to raise a tax ffor the same to
defray the charge of that and theire towne debts, &c. which said lawe
has bin since ffurther confirmed by said ffreeholders at a towne meeting
at Bedford, the 11th of Aprill, 1702, and since approved of and
confirmed by a Court of Sessions, held at Fflatbush, in said County the
13th day of May, 1702. And whereas by virtue of said lawe, a certaine
small tax was raised on the ffreeholders in said towne proportionably to
defray the charges aforesaid: And now upon complaint of the said
Trustees to us made, that A. B. has refused to pay his juste and due
proporcon of said tax wch amounts to _L_1 16s 0d, current money of
New-York. These are therefore in her Majesty’s name, to command you to
summons A. B. personally to be and appeare before us, &c., then and
there to answer C. D. E. F. Trustees of said towne of Brooklin, in an
action of tresspass on the case, to the damage of the said C. D. E. F.
_L_1 16s 0d, current money as aforesaid, as it is said, and have with
you then there this precept. Given, &c.