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Docket title: The case of Queen's Village on Long Island.

Title history of Queen's Village at Lloyd Neck appended to May Bickley's January 16, 1716 letter to Henry Lloyd. Caption title: A state of the case of Queen's Village at Lloydneck.

Copy of letter from May Bickley, New York, giving his legal opinion on Henry Lloyd's right to the property of Queen's Village at Lloyd Neck based on the title history provided by Lloyd, attached here as A state of the case of Queen's Village at Lloydneck (pages [2-4]); original in Lloyd family papers, 1654-1822, volume 1, folder 2.

Abstract of title of Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, prepared by Henry Lloyd, Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, in his boundary dispute with the Town of Huntington; records transactions from September 28, 1665 through June 3, 1718 and evidence and witnesses' testimonies taken in 1730.

Abstract of title of Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, prepared by Henry Lloyd, Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, in his boundary dispute with the Town of Huntington; records transactions from April 2, 1653 through May 13, 1731.

Pages [4]-[5], blank, not digitized.

Title history of Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck sent by Henry Lloyd, Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck to May Bickley, New York, seeking Bickley's legal opinion on Lloyd's right to the property; followed by a draft of Bickley's opinion that has been crossed out.

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Brief in a lawsuit in which Augustine Moore sued Martha Leverich to eject her from the tract of land on Hellgate Neck (Astoria) known as Van Harlem's lot, to establish his legal title to the property, and to collect damages; contains both Moore's and Leverich's claimed title histories; a peculiarity of the law as then practiced is that cases like this required the use of fictitious lessees, in this case "John Fenn" and "John Turnout" for Moore and Leverich, respectively.