Translation
Caveat against granting Thomas Lovelace certain land near Staten Island
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Read and considered the petition of Jacob Melyn and Jacob Kip, as guardians of the
widow of the late Cornelis Melyn, requesting that they may be allowed and granted
possession (in consideration of the lands which said Cornelis Melyn reserved to
himself when he sold Staten Island to the West India Company) of a certain piece of
land situate between the mill-kill and Schutter's Island,[1] and that Thomas Lovelace may be refused
said land which they understand he is applying for.
Ordered:
Petitioners
shall within 14 days from this date show what right they have to any lands on Staten
Island, or to the land allowed to Thomas Lovelace.
Notes
At the mouth of
Newark bay. — Ed.