Records of the town of Smithtown, Long Island, [electronic resource] : with other ancient documents of historic value . I r I y2^^ £. 5 5, / 5-/ ^c ocCe Land of Adam Smith, east side of Stony Brook Harbor. Smithtown, August ye g, 1717. At the request of Mr. Adam Smith I have surveyed the peace of landprotracted in this annexed Skeam or figer. The first bounds is a Whiteoak tree, marked A. S. standing- near ye head of Stony Brook Harbor,ranging east i degree South 181 rods, from thence east 5 degrees SouthiSi rods, then North east 20 rods. From thence North 5 degrees east. 52rods, from thenc


Records of the town of Smithtown, Long Island, [electronic resource] : with other ancient documents of historic value . I r I y2^^ £. 5 5, / 5-/ ^c ocCe Land of Adam Smith, east side of Stony Brook Harbor. Smithtown, August ye g, 1717. At the request of Mr. Adam Smith I have surveyed the peace of landprotracted in this annexed Skeam or figer. The first bounds is a Whiteoak tree, marked A. S. standing- near ye head of Stony Brook Harbor,ranging east i degree South 181 rods, from thence east 5 degrees SouthiSi rods, then North east 20 rods. From thence North 5 degrees east. 52rods, from thence west 60 rods. From thence N. 15 degrees west, 192 rodsby Richard Smith to ye salt marsh, from thence by the salt marsh west-erly and southerly, according to this figer to the first bounds. Containing327 acres. Prepared by me JAMES TOWXSEXn. [The orisrinal map and survey, now in possession of Mrs. Nathaniel Smith of the oldest map in Smithtown. It was the homestead of Adam Smith, as g:iven to him byhis father, the Patentee, (see pa^e sg). The house of Mr. and Mrs. Devereux Emmett occu-pies the site of


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