Deed from the Heirs of Samuel Staats to Samuel Clowes & John Everet

              This Indenture made the second day of September in the year of our Lord Christ, seventeen hundred and twenty Between Andreas Coeymans gent. & Gertruy his wife, one of the daughters of Samuel Staats late of the City of New York, gent. deceased, Isaac Governeur, gent. and Sarah his wife, another Daughter of the said Samuel Staats, Stephanus Van Courtlant and Cattyna his wife, another Daughter of the said Samuel Staats, Phillip Schuyler, gent. &Anna Elizabeth his wife, daughter of the said Samuel Staats, & Johanna White, Widow (relict of Anthony White, gent., deceased, and Trintye Staats, the youngest Daughter of him the aforesaid Samuel Staats of the one part And Samuel Clowes & John Everet of Queens County in the Colony of New York, gent. of the other part. Whereas certain large Tracts of Land Situate in the County of Orange within the Colony of New York aforesaid commonly called and known by the name of Wawayanda were by the Crown granted unto John Bridges, Hendrick Ten Eyck, Derick Vanderburg and diverse other persons as appears by Letters patent under the broad Seal of this Colony dated the twenty-ninth day of April in the year of Our Lord, seventeen hundred and three, the one full equal thirteenth part of which said lands were afterwards granted and conveyed by mean conveyance from the said patentees and their Assigns & other wayes unto the aforenamed Samuel Staats & his heirs whereof he dyed seized and whereas the said Samuel Staats in his life did on the twenty-first day of September in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and fifteen make his last will and Testament whereto he did save, give and bequeath all his said Lands unto his six Daughters abovenamed and their heirs & assigns forever. Now this Indenture Wittnesseth that the said Andreas Coemans & Gertruy his wife, & Isaac Governeur & Sarah his wife, Stephanus Vancourtland and Catyna his wife, Phillip Schuyler and Anna Elizabeth his wife, Johanna White and the said Trintye Staats, for & in consideration of the sum of fifty pounds to them paid by the said John and Samuel, the receipt whereof is hereby owned & the said Samuel and John & their Executors and Administrators therefrom for ever exonerated? & released by these presents; have give, granted, aliened Released confirmed & by these presents do give, grant aliene Release and Confirm unto them the said John Everet and Samuel Clowes & their heirs & assigns, all that this full equal sixth part of the said thirteenth part of the said Tracts of Land abovesaid, called Wawayanda, with all & Singular Libertyes, priviledges, Rights, Hereditaments & appurtenances whatsoever to the same in any wayes belonging or appertaining with the Reversions and Remainders thereof [interlined] excepting out this patent grant one small parcel of Land which bythis patentees to Judge mon??on ?? his for opinion (which said hereby above granted Tract of Land and premises is now in the actual possession of them the said Samuel Clowes and John Everet by virtue of one Indenture of Bargain & Sale to them thereof made for the term of one year bearing date the day before the date of these presents & made Between the said Andreas Coeymans & Gertruy his wife, Isaac Governeur & Sarah his wife, Stephanus Van Cortland & Cattyna his wife, Phillip Schuyler and Anna Elizabeth his wife, Johanna White & Trintye Staats of the one part and the said Samuel Clowes and John Everet of the other part and by virtue of the Statute for transferring of uses into possession) To Have and to Hold the said one equal sixth part of the said thirteenth part of the aforecited Tracts of land and premises with the appurtenances unto them, the said Samuel Clowes and John Everet to the only use and behoofe of the said John Everet and Samuel Clowes & their heirs and assigns for ever. And the said Andreas Coveymans , Isaac Governeur, Stephannus Van Cortland, Phillip Schuyler, Johanna White & Trintye Staats, for themselves, their heirs, Executors & Administrators & Assigns & for every one of them, Soe Joyntly and Severaly covenant , promise & grant to and with the Said John Everet & Samuel Clowes & their heirs & Assigns by these presents that they the said Andreas Coeymens & Gertruy his wife, Isaac Goveneur and Sarah his wife, Stephannus Van Cortland & Cattyna his wife & Phillip Schuyler & Anna Elizabeth his wife, Johannah White and Trintye Staats are or some or one of them is imediately before the exericting hereof solely, rightfully, lawfully and absolutely seized of & in all & Singular the above, hereby granted & Intended to be hereby granted & Released lands and premises with every their appurtenances of an Indefeasible Estate of Inheritance in fee simple & that they or some or one of them have or hath in them him or her self good, right, lawful & absolute Authority & power to give, grant Aliene Release & Confirm the same premises & every part thereof with every their appurtenances unto the said John Everet & Samuel Clowes and their heirs to the uses herein before mentioned & in manner & form aforesaid ) Witness whereof the said parteis? have to these presents Interchangeable Set their Hands and Seals the Day and Year first above Written 
[Signatures in hand] 
Andreas Coeymans / Gertruy Coeymans 
Isaac Governeur / Sarah Governeur 
Stephanus Van Cortland / Cathalina Van Cortland 
Philip Schuyler / Anna Elizabeth Schuyler 
JohannaWhite 
Tryntie Staats