Image Text 2 Items Capt. Samuel Moore and Joseph Moore indenture, February 28, 1754. Indenture from Samuel Moore and Joseph Moore to Augustine Moore for a tract of land on Hellgate Neck (Astoria); witnessed by Samuel Moore, son of Joseph Moore, and Robert Field, Jr.; prepared in conjunction with a lawsuit between Augustine Moore and Martha Leverich. View Item
Image Text 3 Items James Hazard and Nicholas Berrian indenture, May 15, 1732. Copy of an indenture from James Hazard and Nicholas Berrien, executors of the estate of William Lawrence, to William Leverich, for the sale of Lawrence's house and farm in Hellgate Neck (Astoria) for £537; witnessed by Peter Berrien and Petrus Berrien; attested May 16, 1732 by Hazard and Berrien before John Talman, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Queens County; recorded March 21, 1735 in the Newtown book of records by Jacob Reeder, town clerk; copied July 22, 1752 from the Newtown book of records by Jacob Reeder, town clerk. View Item
Image Text 2 Items James Hazard and Nicholas Berrian indenture, May 15, 1732. Indenture from James Hazard and Nicholas Berrien, executors of the estate of William Lawrence, to William Leverich, for the sale of Lawrence's house and farm in Hellgate Neck (Astoria) for £537; witnessed by Peter Berrien and [Pet]rus Berrien; attested May 16, 1732 by Hazard and Berrien before John Talman, judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Queens County; recorded in the Newtown book of records by Jacob Reeder, town clerk; bottom corner torn away with loss to signature of one of the witnesses; silked. View Item
Image Text 3 Items William and Mary Lawrence indenture, January 10, 1723. Indenture from William Lawrence and Mary, his wife, to their son, William Lawrence, Jr. for the sale of four contiguous lots in Hellgate Neck (Astoria) for £500; witnessed by Pieter Luyster and Elbert Luyster; attested January 20, 1723 by William Lawrence and Mary before John Hunt, justice of the peace. View Item
Image Collection 37 Items Long Island City (New York, N.Y.) and Astoria (New York, N.Y.) property records and legal documents, 1639-1758. Collection of property records and legal documents relating to land in Long Island City, N.Y. and Astoria, N.Y. (formerly part of Newtown); includes contemporaneous copies of agreements with Native American tribes from the 17th century, deeds and other records for property formerly belonging to the Lawrence family, and legal records relating to several lawsuits involving the Lawrence, Hallett, Leverich, and Moore families and others. View Collection
Image Text 2 Items Thomas Osbourne Jr. indenture, October 16, 1704. Typed transcription of an indenture from Thomas Osbourne, Jr. to Thomas Osbourne, Sr., both of East Hampton, for the sale of one quarter share of the property in Montauk held by the late John Osbourne; witnessed by Cornelius Conkling and Samuel Fisher; attested by Thomas Osbourne, Jr. before Josiah Hobart, justice of Suffolk County; transcribed in 1954 from the original owned by Oliver T. Dusenbury. View Item
Image Text 4 Items Dorothea Gotherson power of attorney, November 2, 1667. Copy of an indenture giving power of attorney from Dorothea Gotherson, Egerton, Kent, England, to Governor Francis Lovelace, to take possession of property at Oyster Bay purchased from John Richbell by her late husband Daniel Gotherson and to investigate John Scott's fraudulent land sales to her late husband and to recover whatever possible; witnessed by Thomas Lovelace, Frances Lovelace, and Ralph Whitfield; followed by a copy of the July 11, 1662 deed from Scott and Daniel Gotherson for the sale of 1600 acres in Long Island; witnessed by Thomas Leigh, notary, and Mary Hill; copied by George View Item
Image Text 8 Items John Scott indenture, July 11, 1662. Copy of an indenture from John Scott, Southampton, Long Island, to Daniel Gotherson, Egerton, Kent, England, for the sale of 1600 acres in Long Island to Gotherson; witnessed by Henry Clerke, Edward Netonham, and Thomas Leigh, notary; followed by a copy of a July 11, 1662 bond between Scott and Gotherson regarding performance of the indenture; witnessed by Thomas Leigh, notary, and Mary Hill; copied by George Tranchard. View Item