Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, [inverted sequence] page 1.

Excerpts from a December 10, 1660 decree of the town of Oyster Bay voiding the ordinances previously established and signed by Thomas Armitage, William Leverich, and six others; from a December 13, 1660 decree of the town that no one would be permitted to purchase land in the town without having been admitted as an inhabitant, that the town was under neither Dutch nor English jurisdiction, and that all inhabitants must acquire a barrel of hayseed to be planted on the town common lands; this section is inverted and paged backwards relative to the rest of the volume.