In Office of Secretary of State at Albany. Vol. 2.
Page 266:
Petition of Jacob Codeber Thomas Swart & others praying a patent for
a tract of land in Ulster County being a part of a tract called
Waghaghkemeck.
To Coll Benjamin Fletcher, General & Governor of New York &c.
Thomas Gumbl Jacob Coddeber, Thomas, Anthony & Barnardus Swartwout,
James Tys David Jamisson Showoth
That there is a . . . land called Waghaghkomock in Elster . . . the
sixth first petitioners had a lyine on . . . hundred acres for the
improvement but . . . uttssen & Company who has a poss . . . the
Minissink fort so it is that . . . Waghkomeck is purchased of the
indians . . . the first grant
Therefore . . . have a patent for the same to . . .ever as to oath
(other?) un equal favor . . . so 1200 acres in the . . . most . . .
under a mo . . . Ecell . . . and . . . pray . . . thony Swartwout
. . . Paire Gumare . . . out . . . David Jamisson . . . eck . . .
Thomas Swartwout.
(The ". . ." indicate that it is impossible to read the lines or
make out the words on the original paper owing to its extreme age.)