 | Calvin Pepper - Manors - 1846 - 100 pages
...four miles (twelve English miles) on one side of a navigable river, and two miles (six English miles) on each side of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers would permit. It appears, then, that Killian Van Rensselaer came over as the agent of the West India... | |
 | Calvin Pepper - Rensselaerswyck (N.Y.) - 1846 - 48 pages
...four miles (twelve English miles) on one side of a navigable river, and two miles (six English miles) on each side of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of (he occupiers would permit. It appears, then, IhatKillian Van Rensselaer came over as the agent of... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1848 - 456 pages
...extend their limits four miles along the shore, that is, on one side of a navigable river, or two miles on each side of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will permit, etc. rivers, and woods lying contiguous to them, for and during so long a time as this Company shall... | |
 | New York (State) - 1849 - 516 pages
...extend four Dutch (equal to sixteen English) miles along the shore, on one side, or half that distance, on each side, of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the different occupiers might permit. The Patroons were invested with the power of holding courts of justice,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1849 - 624 pages
...extend four Dutch (equal to sixteen English) miles along the shore, on one side, or half that distance, on each side, of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the different occupiers might permit. The Patroons were invested with the power of holding courts of justice,... | |
 | John Romeyn Brodhead - New York (State) - 1858 - 802 pages
...their limits four leagues along the shore, that is, on one side of a navigable river, or two leagues on each side of a river, and so far into the country...permit ; provided and conditioned that the Company keep VOL. II. 70 to themselves the lands lying and remaining between the limits of Colonies, to dispose... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1859 - 570 pages
...extend their limits four miles along the shore, that is, on one side of a navigable river, or two miles on each side of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will permit, etc. Art. S. The Patroons may, if they think proper, make use of all lands, rivers, and woods lying... | |
 | New York (State) - Law - 1868 - 650 pages
...their limits four leagues along the shore, that is, on one side of a Navigable river, or two leagues on each side of a River, and so far into the country...the Lands lying and remaining between the limits of Colojiies, to dispose thereof, when and at such time as they shall think proper, .in such manner that... | |
 | Charles Hardenburg Winfield - Hudson County (N.J.) - 1872 - 474 pages
...extend their limits four miles* along the shore, that is, on one side of a navigable river, or two miles on each side of a river, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will permit. * * VI. — They shall forever possess and enjoy all the lands lying within the aforesaid limits, together... | |
 | john s. c. abbott - 1898 - 384 pages
...such places as they shall settle their colonies, to extend their limits four miles* along the shore, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will admit.'" The patroons, thus in possession of territory equal to many of the dukedoms and principalities... | |
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River, and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will permit... 
