Jackson ex dem. Klock v. Hudson
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action of ejectment, for lands in Montgomery county. The cause was tried at the Montgomery circuit, before Mr. Justice Van Ness, in October, 1807. The plaintiff gave in evidence a lease from George Klock, the father of the lessors of the plaintiff, to Jacob Forbush and Baftholomexv Forbush, dated the 6th Septemher, 1783, for a farm, known by lots no. 7 and 8. on the ’ . •' . Mohawk river, at Conajohary, “ containing 600 acres of low and cribble bush lands,” for…
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THIS was an action of ejectment, for lands in Montgomery county. The cause was tried at the Montgomery circuit, before Mr. Justice Van Ness, in October, 1807. The plaintiff gave in evidence a lease from George Klock, the father of the lessors of the plaintiff, to Jacob Forbush and Baftholomexv Forbush, dated the 6th Septemher, 1783, for a farm, known by lots no. 7 and 8. on the ’ . •' . Mohawk river, at Conajohary, “ containing 600 acres of low and cribble bush lands,” for the term of three years, at a yearly rent of 30 skipples of wheat, with clause of reentry for the non-payment of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Kent, Ch. J.
delivered the opinion’of the court. The lessors of the plaintiff have made out the following paper title to the premises.
1. A patent from government in the year 1731, for 8,000 acres of land, and which included the Conajohary Castle tract, of which the premises in question are a part.
2. A release from one of the four patentees, in the year 1734, to Philip Livingston, another of the patentees, for his one-fourth part of the tract. This release invested Livingston with a moiety of the lands.
3. The will of Livingston in the year 1748, by which he devised his estate in the patent, to…
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