indentures

Correspondence, land papers, deeds, bonds, memoranda, maps, indentures, wills, and miscellaneous legal and financial documents, 1654-1822, of the Lloyd family of Long Island, Boston, and Rhode Island. Correspondence, 1654-1822, consists of letters received by members of the Lloyd family, generally from other family members, and principally concern financial and legal matters, disposition of family property, inheritances, management of farm and domestic affairs (including the appraisal and sale of slaves), and news regarding the health, welfare, and conduct of family members.

Copy of an indenture between Henry Lloyd and Rebecca, his wife, Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, and David Jones, Fort Neck, conveying to Jones one third of two thirds of one fifth of Massapequa Meadows in exchange for 67 pounds New York money; witnessed by the brothers Michael and John Waring of Oyster Bay; Henry Lloyd's and John Waring's attestation accepted by Timothy Bagley, Justice of the Peace for Queens County.

Indenture between Isaiah Harrison, Smithtown, N.Y., and Henry Lloyd, Queen's Village, Lloyd Neck, for the lease of the Maiden Plantation, Sussex County, Del. Witnessed by Thomas Smith and Samuel Ketcham.

Indenture between John Nelson, Boston, and Addington Davenport and Edward Lyde, both of Boston, for Long Island, Boston Harbor, Mass. Witnessed by D. Foster, Benj. Baxter, and Margaret Cole.

Indenture between Thomas Hart, Barbados, and Latimer Sampson, Oyster Bay, ending right of survivorship for the properties co-owned by the two at Lloyd Neck, Fort Neck meadow, and Oyster Bay; witnessed by Daniel Browning, Richard Kett, Walter Benthall, and Henry Nelson.

Correspondence, land papers, deeds, bonds, memoranda, maps, indentures, wills, and miscellaneous legal and financial documents, 1654-1822, of the Lloyd family of Long Island, Boston, and Rhode Island. Correspondence, 1654-1822, consists of letters received by members of the Lloyd family, generally from other family members, and principally concern financial and legal matters, disposition of family property, inheritances, management of farm and domestic affairs (including the appraisal and sale of slaves), and news regarding the health, welfare, and conduct of family members.

Note documenting an April 6, 1731 indenture between Henry and Rebecca Seaman and Rev. Robert Jenney, rector of the Anglican church in Hempstead, for the sale of five acres in Hempstead; and a March 6, 1680/1 deed from Henry Townsend Sr. giving land to his son Henry Townsend Jr.; recorded March 9, 1683/4 in the records of Oyster Bay by Thomas Townsend, recorder, and July 22, 1735 in the records of Queens County by Andrew Clark, clerk.

Notes regarding documents recorded in the records of Queens County, 1714-1717; with excerpts from a September 17, 1683 deed from Capt. Opsum, son of Tackapausha, for the sale of a little neck between Unkaway and Fort Neck to Adam Wright, Nicholas Simkins, and Thomas Townsend, and recorded August 2, 1718; and a note regarding a February 23, 1718 [i.e. 1719] document signed by William Nicoll and a February 23, 1718 [i.e. 1719] indenture between Nicoll and Joseph Latham for the sale of 668 acres for £2350.

July 26, 1715 sworn statement from Mary Macoun, widow of William Macoun (continued); and excerpts from a March 30, 1714 indenture between Stephen Chapel and Alexander Hubbs for the sale of 30 acres in Oyster Bay for £25 10 shillings; from a February 24, 1713/4 deed from Thomas Miller to Alexander Hubbs for the sale of 250 acres near Jericho for £425; ; from a November 8, 1714 deed from Richard Buckler to Thomas Powell Jr. for the sale of 20 acres for £29 10 shillings.

Several notes documenting members of the Townsend family and others mentioned in the Queens County records; with excerpts from an April 7, 1687 indenture between Matthias Nicolls and William Nicoll, both of New York, for the sale of land at Little Neck on Cow Neck for £150 and acknowledged April 11, 1686/7 before Jacobus Van Cortlandt, justice of the peace.

Excerpts from an April 14, 1684 indenture between Tackapausha, sachem, and several other Native Americans, and Elias Doughty and several other freeholders of Flushing, selling their land in Flushing, but retaining the right to gather bulrushes; and from a February 23, 1684/5 deed from Joseph Ludlam to Edward White for the sale of five acres in Oyster Bay, attested before Thomas Townsend, justice of the peace and recorded by William Nicoll, registrar.

Excerpts from a March 10 1707/8 indenture between Anthony Wright and Henry Townsend Jr. [III, died 1709] (continued), and excerpts from a February 18, 1713 [i.e. 1714] indenture between Thomas and Dinah Howell and Rose Townsend, widow of John Townsend, for the sale of a house and land in Jamaica, with notes regarding Rose Townsend.

July 20, 1704 deed from Henry Townsend Sr. [i.e. Jr., born 1649] to Henry Townsend [III, died 1709] giving the younger Townsend all his land and rights in Jamaica and attested before John Townsend, justice of the peace; and excerpts from a March 10 1707/8 indenture between Anthony Wright and Henry Townsend Jr. [III, died 1709] for the sale of land in Oyster Bay for £100.

Excerpts from a February 12, 1702/3 indenture between John Weekes and Morris and Mary Shadbolt for the sale of swampland in Oyster Bay; from a July 3, 1704 deed from Anthony Wright to the Shadbolts for the sale of 14 acres swampland in Oyster Bay; and from a March 8 1699 [i.e. 1700] indenture between David Underhill and John Townsend for the sale of a share of the common land in Oyster Bay which Townsend later assigned to the Shadbolts January 22, 1702/3.

April 19, 1691 indenture between John Jackson and John Townsend and four others (continued) and excerpts from a November 4, 1690 deed witnessed by Thomas and Mary Townsend, a May 22, 1694 document appointing John Harrison, Charles Morgan, and Jonathan Wright to settle a dispute over the division of land with Flushing, a July 2, 1694 conveyance of land from John Smith, Hempstead, to his son-in-law Richard Townsend, and a November 18, 1693 grant of land from Smith to Townsend.

Excerpts from a January 7, 1685 [i.e. 1686] bill of sale of 200 acres of woodland near Cedar Swamp (now Glen Head) sold by Suscanemon, Chechegin, and Samos, son of Tackapausha, to John Underhill and witnessed by Henry Townsend Jr.