3152 aforesaid, hath hereunto set his hand and seal the day 3153 N. VAN BRUNT. State of New York, County of Kings, ss.: On this sixth day of May, A. D. 1847, before me came Samuel E. Johnson, to me known to be the same person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and he acknowledged to me that he executed the same. N. VAN BRUNT, Justice of the Peace. State of New York, County of Kings, ss.: I, John M. Hicks, Clerk of the county of Kings and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said county, do hereby certify that Nicholas Van Brunt, whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of the Peace, in and for said county, dwelling in the said county, elected and sworn and duly authorized to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting 3154 of such justice, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 8th day of May, 1847. JOHN M. HICKS, State of New York, County of Westchester, ss.: Clerk. I, John P. Jenkins, register of deeds, in and for the county of Westchester, do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of deed with the original thereof, remaining of record in my office, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original as recorded in my office, in Liber 3155 120, page 155, &c. I further certify that there is no official seal belonging to this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this 1st day of June, A. D. 1859. JOHN P. JENKINS. Endorsed-"Samuel E. Johnson, Master in Chancery, to Edwin Forrest. Deed. No. 1. A. C. B." Exhibit No. 2. Edwin Forrest to the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de 3156 This indenture, made the twentieth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fiftysix, between Edwin Forrest, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, party of the first part, and the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, a benevolent and charitable incorporated society, of the second part, witnesseth, That the said party of the first part, for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, to him in hand paid by the said parties of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and the said parties of the second part forever released and discharged from the same, by these presents, hath granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, and confirmed, and by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey, and confirm unto the 3157 said parties of the second part, and to their successors and assigns, forever, all that certain tract, piece, or parcel of land, situate, lying, and being in the town of Yonkers, county of Westchester, and State of New York, bounded as follows: Beginning at the southeasterly corner of said tract of land, which corner is formed by the westerly line of land formerly of Bishop Lawrence, and the line dividing the said tract from lands now or late in possession of John Horspool, and running thence 3158 north, along the line of the land formerly of Bishop Lawrence, twenty degrees and fifteen minutes east, sixteen chains and forty-six links, to a point in the southerly line of land formerly of Samuel Lawrence; thence north, along the said lands formerly of Samuel Lawrence, sixty-six degrees and forty minutes west, four chains and, thirty-four links, to a point; thence north, still along said last-mentioned land, sixty-seven degrees and forty minutes west, three chains and nineteen links; thence north, still along said land, sixty-one degrees west, five chains and twenty-four links; thence north, still along said land, fifty-four degrees forty minutes 3159 west, three chains and forty-seven links; thence north, still along said land, sixty-seven degrees and forty minutes west, eighty-five links; thence north, still along said lands, fifty-nine degrees ten minutes west, one chain and seventy-five links; thence north, still along said land, fifty-four degrees thirty-five minutes west, three chains and thirty-three links; thence north, still along said land, fifty-two degrees west, two chains and thirtyfour links; thence north, still along said lands, fortyeight degrees and thirty minutes west, one chain and ninety-one links; thence north, still along said lands, forty-four degrees forty-five minutes west, one chain and 3160 eighty-two links; thence north, still along said lands, seventy-one degrees fifteen minutes west, to the Hudson river; thence southerly, along said Hudson river, to land of Lispenard Stewart; thence south, along said Stewart's land, fifty-seven degrees ten minutes east, seven chains and fourteen links, to a point on the southerly side of the road, called the New Road, leading from the road called the Quarry Road, to the residence of Lispenard Stewart and the Hudson river; thence south, along the southerly side of said New Road, eighty-five degrees and five minutes east, fifty-eight links; thence south, still along the southerly side of said New Road, seventy-six degrees and twenty-five minutes east, two chains and eighty-five links; thence south, still along 3161 the southerly side of said New Road, sixty-eight degrees and five minutes east, one chain; thence south, still along the southerly side of said New Road, sixty-one degrees and thirty-five minutes east, one chain and seventy-three links; thence south, still along the southerly side of said New Road, fifty-five degrees and thirty minutes east, seven chains and twenty links; thence south, still along the southerly side of said New Road, one degree and thirty minutes west, thirty-seven links, to a point on the westerly side of the said Quarry Road; thence south, along said Quarry Road, fifty-three degrees thirty minutes west, one chain and fifty-eight 3162 links, to a point on the westerly side of said Quarry Road, opposite the point where the northerly line of the land of the aforesaid John Horspool strikes the easterly side of said Quarry Road; thence south, across said Quarry Road and along the said line of the land of the said John Horspool, fifty-six degrees and twentyfive minutes east, fifteen chains and seventy-five links, to the place of beginning, containing fifty-four acres and eighty-eight hundredths of an acre, be the same more or less: subject to all the right, title and interest of the Hudson River Railroad Company in so much of the land included within the above boundaries as was 3163 conveyed to them by the said Edwin Forrest, by deed dated July 2d, 1847; and also subject to the rights of the public in so much of the same as forms part of the new public highway leading from the village of Yonkers to Spuyten Duyvel, and subject to such right of way as exists now through and over the road running along the southerly boundary of said premises. Together with all the right, title and interest of the said party of the first part, of, in and to the land under water, lying in front of and adjoining said premises; and all 3164 and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof; and, also, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in and to the same and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances: To have and to hold the above granted, bargained and described premises, with the appurtenances, unto the said parties of the second part, their successors and assigns, to their own proper use, benefit 3165 and behoof, forever. And the said Edwin Forrest, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, doth covenant, grant and agree, to and with the said parties of the second part, their successors and assigns, that he and they will, at every and all times hereafter, indemnify and save harmless the said parties of the second part, their successors and assigns, of, from and against all dower, alimony, claim of dower or claim of alimony, and of, from and against all damages or payments of money on account of such claim of dower or alimony, of Catherine N. Forrest, the wife of the said Edwin Forrest, in the premises above described, or any part thereof. And the 3166 said Edwin Forrest, for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators, doth also covenant, grant and agree, to and with the said parties of the second part, their successors and assigns, that the said Edwin Forrest, at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents, is lawfully seized, in his own right, of a good, absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance, in fee simple, of, and in all and singular the above granted, bargained and described premises, with the appurtenances, and hath good right, full power and lawful authority to |