[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] the 10th of November, 1763, a deed was obtained from Levinus and Anne Clarkson, " both residing at Voorburgh, near the Hague,'" the son and daughter of Matthew Clarkson, the patentee, which finished the transfer of the Atwood and Clarkson interests as before explained.-' The consideration named in this deed was one thousand and twenty-five pounds. The remaining share of the Depeyster interest, consisting of " one undivided fifth part of one undivided tenth part of the said tract " (the West Patent), was, on June 25, 1764, conveyed to Smith, Fowler and Sutton by " Philip Hughes, Chaplain of a Regiment of foot, and Mary his wife; Philip Van Cortlandt, of Jamaica in Queens County, Gentleman, and William Ricketts Van Cortlandt, of the City of New York," for the sum of two hundred and five pounds.3 Each of these deeds contains a clause varying slight-ly in phraseology, but of the same purport, which ex-cepts from the provisions of the instrument " that Part of the said Tract of Land, being the Northeast-erly part thereof, which is now possessed, or claimed or held by any person or persons under Bed-1 Register's office. Liber H, p. 3a',. 2 Ibid, 310. » Ibid. 316.