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Where[      ] Edsall of this City hath assigned all [      ] title and Intrest over to me George Heathcote, of an Island called by the Ingin name of Sankhikins, Lyinge in delaware nere the falls, these are to sertyfie whom it may conserne That I doe acknowledge to have but one halfe of the said Hand properly belongeinge unto me, and that is in Consideration of Charges of gettinge the whole Hand Confirmed to me by the Duke of Yorke, and That I give the said Edsall, the same Confirmemation [ sic ] derived from mine, soe gott of the duke for his halfe, and forty pounds more Currant p[      ] New yorke, for my halfe, beinge in full for it, [      ] said Confirmation of the dukes Cannot be procuered. Then [      ] Agreements to be voyd not withstandinge, and the [      ] retorne to Samuel Edsall [      ] first, in wittness [      ] they have [      ] theire hands and [      ] the second [      ] [      ] [      ] the yeare one thousand six honndred [      ]

[ Signed: ] Samuell Edsall

Signed sealed and delivered before
[ Signed: ] Guilain Verplanck
Clement Sebra
Robert Roberts^[1]

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Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. 20-21, Delaware Papers: English Period, 1664-1682 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1981).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.