Harway Improvement Co. v. Partridge

Blackmar, P. J.:

Recognizing the difficulties and uncertainties of locating the boundaries of grants over 200 years old, especially when they involve the title to land under water which has never been the subject of exclusive possession, I submit the reasons that lead me to prefer the solution that the land in question was not granted by the Lovelace and Dongan charters below referred to, but passed to the predecessor in title of the plaintiff by the grant of the State of New York.

By an instrument dated and recorded, on the 27th of May, 1643, William Kieft, Director-General of the United…