Records of the town of Smithtown, Long Island, [electronic resource] : with other ancient documents of historic value . J. Otis Smith,C Melville Smith, Wm. S. Lawson and John H. P. BrowerBrowning. Also to Augustus G. Silliman and Edward , Town Clerks, for able and willing assistance. To Prescott Hall Butler, Esq., and Dr. E. P. Buflettwe are indebted for portraits of two of Smithtowms mosthonored citizens. The writer ventures to hope that this work will be ap-preciated as a valuable addition to Long Island history,and that it will preserve to future generations the acts anddeeds of a
Records of the town of Smithtown, Long Island, [electronic resource] : with other ancient documents of historic value . J. Otis Smith,C Melville Smith, Wm. S. Lawson and John H. P. BrowerBrowning. Also to Augustus G. Silliman and Edward , Town Clerks, for able and willing assistance. To Prescott Hall Butler, Esq., and Dr. E. P. Buflettwe are indebted for portraits of two of Smithtowms mosthonored citizens. The writer ventures to hope that this work will be ap-preciated as a valuable addition to Long Island history,and that it will preserve to future generations the acts anddeeds of an illustrious ancestry. Southampton, L. I. WILLIAM S. PELLETREAU. Note.—It might seem unpardonable not to mention the time hon-ored tradition, that Richard Smith gained his land by making a bargainwith the Indians, to have all he could ride around on his trained bullin a day. By starting at sunrise, and dashing through swamps andover hill and dale, by sunset he had gone round the town that nowbears his name, and is still held by his descendants. ?For the title given to this view the writer is wholly ?s.•s. f RECORDS OF SMITHTOWN, L I. Indian Deed. Articles of agreement between Nasseconseke, Sachemof Nesequake, of the one part, and Edmond Wood. JonasWood, Jeremy Wood, Timothy Wood and Daniel White-head of the other, and Stephen Hudson. This writing witnesseth That I Nasseconsack, Sachemof Long Island, do sell and make over to the above saidpartyes, Edmond Wood, Jonas Wood, Jeremy Wood^Timothy Wood Stephen Hudson and Daniel Whitehead,a certaine quantity of land, beginning at a River calledand commonly knowne by the name of Nesaquake river,and from that River Eastward to a River called Memanu-sack, lying on the North side of Long Island, and on theSouth side from Conecticott four Necks westward : prom-ising and by vertue of this writing do promise that theaforesaid partyes shall quietly possess and enjoy the saidquantityes of land without any trouble or disturban
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