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- Court of Sessions, Presentment. First Wednesday of October 1672," Thomas Hunt, Jr. bound over by the Court of Sessions at Jamaica about Hogg stealing." Source: New York Historical Manuscripts. English," edited by Peter R. Christoph, G. B. Co., 1980.
The patent for West Farms was granted to John Richardson and Edward Jessup April 25, 1666. Edward Jessup's daughter Elizabeth, was the wife of Thomas Hunt, that he named in his will, and his part came into their possession. The whole was divided in 1669.
Will of John Richardson, Westchester County, New York dated November 16, 1679, leaves to wife Martha, "all my housing and orchard and all movables without and within, and all my land and meadow in the Planting neck, and all the Long Neck, that runs southward from THOMAS HUNT'S new dwelling house to the Sound. During her life. Leaves to son-in- law Joseph Hadley, a pasture of 8 acres at or about the first spring. "To my 3 daughters, Bethia, wife of Joseph Ketchum of Newtown, Mary, wife of Joseph Hadley and Elizabeth, wife of Gabriel Leggett, all the meadow that is already divided on this side of the river above the Planting neck." Leaves to Joseph Richardson, "my brother's son" in England 100 acres of land, if he comes within the space of one whole year. If he does not come, then it is to go to his wife Martha. Leaves rest of estate to his three daughters. Makes Wm. Richardson and Richard Panton of Westchester, and Jonothan Hazard of Newtown executors. Witnessed by Walter Webly, John Laurence, Thomas Hunt, Jr., Edward Walters. "Abstracts of Wills", Vol. I, p 64-65, published by the New York Historical Society.
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