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1686.] PATENT.
Marven, Mr. John Ruscoe, Mr. Nathaniel Hayes, Mr,
Daniel Kellog, and Mr. Thomas Seamore, and the rest
of the present proprietors of the Township
of Norwalk,
and their heirs and assigns forever, and to each of them,
in such proportion as they have already agreed upon
for the division of the same, all that aforesaid tract and
parcell of land as it is butted and bounded ; together
with all the woods, upland, arable lands, meadows,
pastures, ponds, havens, ports, waters, rivers, adjoining
Islands, fishings, huntings, fowlings, mines, mineralls,
quarries, and precious stones,
upon or within the said
tract of land, and all other profits and commodities
thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; and
do also grant unto the afore named Mr. Thomas Fitch,
and Mr. Thomas Hanford, ****=* ^^^
&c., that the
aforesaid tract of land shall be forever hereafter deemed,
and reputed, and be, an entire township of itself—To
HAVE and to hold the said tract of land, &c., * * * *
*##*** according to the tenour of his majestie's
manor of East Greenwich in the county of Kent in y^
Kingdom of England, in free and common soccage, and
not in cappitee nor by Knight service ; they yielding
and paying therefore to our Sovereigne
Lord the King,
his heirs and successors, only the fifth part of all the
Oar of Gold and Silver which from time to
at all times hereafter
time, and
shall be gotten, had, or otherwise
obtained ; in lieu of all rents, services, duties, and
demands whatsoever according to Charter. Tn witness
whereof, we have caused the seal of the Colony to
be hereunto affixed, this eighth day of July, 1686, in
the second year of the Reign of our Sovereigne Lord
James the Second, by the grace of God, of England,