The Case Line - page 8

14th of April 1659,
Thomas Mapes sold to Henry Case the dwelling house, barns, all the whom lott and fences thereunto belonginge late in the occupacon of James Cook and one helfe of all the p'cells of woodland belonging thereunto, and one acre in the Old feild --- three acres of meadow bough of Goodman Benjamin at Oysterpounds. In consideracon of six pounds in hand received --- six pounds more to bee payed by the first of April 1660 in shooes at six pence halfe penny a (sic: a space left blank: the compiler) from the eightes to the twelves: -- nyne pounds thereof to be payed at Michaeltyde (the Feast of Saint Michael, the Archangel, September 29: the compiler) then followinge in shooes at the prize aforesaid, or corne, or boath, and twenty shillings, being the remainder in wampum--right in the purchase of Curchaug and Occabauck for a first Lott.

The whole purchase to stand ingaged for the sixteen pound paymt.

Thomas Mapes
Henry Case

Subscribed in the presence of

Willm Wells

Recorded the 25th of ffebruarie 1661 (1662, modern dating: the compiler)
by me Willm Wells Recorder." [An Act of the New York Colonial Assembly, entitled: "An act for naturalizing Mathias Millsbagh, Jacob Boodstober and others," passed November 8, 1735.]