Jackson ex dem. Schuyler v. Russell
New York Supreme Court
This was an action of ejectment, tried at the Oneida circuit in October, 1827, before the Hon. Nathan Williams, one of the circuit judges.
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This was an action of ejectment, tried at the Oneida circuit in October, 1827, before the Hon. Nathan Williams, one of the circuit judges. On 2d January, 1734, letters patent were granted to William Cosby, sheriff of Amboy, and to ten other persons of a tract of land in the then county of Albany, described as situate on both sides of the Mohawk river, containing 22,000 acres of land and the usual allowance for highways, and as being part of two tracts alleged to have been purchased from the Indians in the year 1725, by N. E. and sundry other Germans. Also, on the same day, other letters…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
1. It is objected that it does not appear that William Cosby, the patentee, was the same who was governor of New-York and New-Jersey. This fact seems not to have been agitated on the trial, but on examining the recitals in the deed from Grace Cosby to Oliver Delaney, William Cosby, sheriff of Amboy, seems to be one of the grantors in a deed of Cosby’s manor to William Cosby, governor of New-York and New-Jersey. They were therefore different persons.
2. It is also said that there is no legal proof of the will of Governor Cosby. Search was made for the original by Mr.…
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