1705 Petition
To his Excellency Howard Niscomb ----
Cornbury Capn Gent & Govr in chief in and over her Majesties Provinces
of New York & New Jersey and Vice Admiral of the Same in Council-----
The humble petition of Cornelis Van Texel, Jacob van Texel, Jan Van Texel,
William Van Texel, sons of Jan Cornelissen Van Texel, late deceased, and Hendrick
Lent, husband of Catharine, one of the daughters of said John; Barent De Witt,
husband of Sarah, another daughter of said John, and Peter Storm, husband of
Margaret also a daughter of said John:
Humbly showeth that whereas your petitioner's father as heir to his mother,
Catoneras, a native Indian of the Island Nassamo, who in her lifetime was seized
of a certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being in the Island aforesaid,
now in the county of Suffolk, next the town of Huntington, called by the natives,
Anendesack, in English, Eader's Neck beach, and so along the Sound four miles
or thereabouts until the Fresh Pond, called by the natives, Assawanama, where
a creek runs into the Sound, and from the Sound running in to the woods six
miles or thereabouts.
And your Petitioners, being all Christians, and professing the Holy Protestant
religion, and knowing that the Heathen never were disturbed in the possession
of their lands of inheritance in the Government, your petitioner,as Christians,
also would very willingly hold the same by his Majesty's Letters Patent under
the seal of this Province.
Yor Petrs therefore humbly Pray yor Excellency to grant them a Patent of the
Land aforesaid accordingly
And Yor Petrs in Duty bound shall Ever pray
Cornelis Van Texel
the mark of Jacob van Texell
Jan Van Texel
Willem Van Texel
the mark of Hendrick Lent
Barent De Wit
the mark of Peter Storm
Land Records: 30 July 1705; Volume 4, page 56
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