[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Thomas Dongan, late Governor of our said Province, and whereon our said loving subject hath made considera-ble improvement, having been at great cost, charge and expense in the pur-chasing the said tract of land and meadows from the native Indians, as well as in the settling a considerable i;umber of families thereon, and being willing to make some further improvem.ent thereon, doth by his said petition further request and pray that we would be graciously pleased to erect the aforesaid tract of land and meadows within the limits and bounds aforesaid into a lord-ship or manor of Cortlandt, which reasonable request for the future encouracre-ment of our said loving subject, we being willing to grant : Knoio ye^ that of our special grace, certain knowledge and mere motion, we have given, grant-ed, ratified and confirmed, and by these presents do for us, our heirs and suc-cessors, give, grant, ratify and confirm unto our said loving subject, Stephannus Van Cortlandt, all the aforesaid certain parcel and tracts of land and meadow within their several and respective limits and bounds aforesaid, together with all and every of the messuages, tenements, buildings, barns, houses, out-houses, stables, edifices, orchards, gardens, inclosures, fences, pastures, fields, feedings, woods, underwoods, trees, timber, swamps, meadows, marshes, pools, ponds, lakes, fountains, waters, water courses, rivers, rivulets, runs, streams, brooks, creeks, harbors, coves, inlets, outlets, islands of meadow, necks of land and meadow, peninsulas of land and meadow, ferries, fishing, fowling, hunting and hawking, and the fishing in Hudson's river, so far as the bounds of the said land extends upon the same, quarries, minerals, (silver and gold mines only excepted,) and all other the rights, members, liberties, privileges, jurisdictions, pre-eminences, emoluments, to the afore recited certain parcels or tracts of land and meadows within their several and respective limits and