five belonging or in any wise appertaining Unto the said GERRIT VAN BENTHUYSEN and to his heirs and assigns forever so that the said GERRIT VAN BENTHUYSEN or his heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and att all times hereafter by force & virtue of these presents lawfully and peaceably have hold use possess and Enjoy the said granted and bargained premisses in manner as aforesaid so that they the said Barent Van Benthuysen Peiter Van Benthuysen and Abraham Van Benthuysen for themselfs their Heirs Executors and administrators or any under them doth Covenant and Ingage the above demised or granted Premisses unto the said GERRIT VAN BENTHUYSEN and to his heirs and assigns forever IN WITNESS whereof the to this present have hereunto sett their hands and seals the day and year first above written. SIGNED SEALED & DELIVERED in the Presence off-ZACHARIAS HOFFMAN-MARTIN HOFFMAN BE IT REMEMBERED that on the twentieth day of April one thousand seven hundred eighty four before me ANTHONY HOFFMAN Esquire one of the judges of the inferior Court oc Common pleas for Dutchess County personally appeared ZACHARIAS HOFFMAN one of the Witnesses to the within written Instrument who being duly sworn on his Oath declared that he saw BARENT VAN BENTHUYSEN-PIETER VAN BENTHUYSEN-JACOB VAN BENTHUYSEN and ABRAM VAN BENTHUYSEN seal and deliver the same as their voluntary act and Deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and that he also saw MARTIN HOFFMAN the other Witnesses thereto and that he the Deponent also subscribed his as a Witness and I having perused the same and finding no material razures or interlineations therein do allow the same to be recorded - - Anth. HOFFMAN Dutchess County ss: A True Copy Examined & Compared with the Original Deed and Map the Twenty Eighth day of August anno 1786 - - P. Henry Livingston Clerk
JACOB (LS) VAN BENTHUYSEN
BARENT VAN BENTHUYSEN (LS)
ABRAM VAN (LS) BENTHUYSEN
PEITER VAN BENTHUYSEN (LS)
Readers may be interested to know that further ecological information may be found in a monograph titled, Hudson River East Bank Natural Areas, Clermont to Norrie, by Erik Kiviat, published 1978 by The Nature Conservancy. Copies are available at cost plus postage ($4.60) from Hudson River Heritage, Inc., Box 287, Rhinebeck, N.Y. 12572.
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