[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] Thomas Pel!, Defendant. William Wilkins, John Emans,. -. Charles Morgan, John Forster, ' ' Joseph Bayley, Robert Terry. " The attorney for the plaintiffs produced a copy of the heads of the trial at the court of sessions held in Jutie last, at Hampstead, he likewise pnts in a declaration alledging the defendant's unjust molestation of the plaintiff"? in their possession of a certain parcel of land called CornelTs neck, lying and being near Westchester, which of right belongs unto them, &c. To prove their tiile, a grant and patent from the Dutch governor, Kieft, to Thomas Cornell, deceased, father of Sarah, one of the plaintiffs, is produced and read in court, that upon the said grant, Thomas Cornell was in lawful possession of the said lands, and that he was at considerable charges in build-ing, manuring, and planting ye same, that after some years the said Thomas Cornell was driven off" his said lands, by the barbarous violence of the Indians who burnt his house and goods, and destroyed his cattle, which was made ap-peare by sufficient testimony. That widow Cornell's conveyance of tlie said neck of land to Sarah Bridges, one of the plaintiffs, and her sister, was like-wise given in, under which the plaintiffs claime. That the said widow Cornell was left sole executrix of the last will and testament of her husband, Thomas Cornell, deceased, and so had power to convey the premises; this was allowed of, (although neither the will nor a copy thereof were produced,) there being