From: FENWICK'S SURVEYS, 1676-1705
PAGE 543 West Jersey Records, Liber B, Part 2
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1676 Aug. 19. Do. Do. to Matthyas NELISON, Matthyas MATTESON
and Peter OULSON, all of Boughtown, N. Y., planters, of 1,040 acres be-
tween the mouth of Bough Town Creek and Game Creek, along Delaware R. 13

From: NJA Vol. 21 - Salem No. 1 (1664-1699)
PAGE 565 Salem No. 1
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1678 May 11. Do. Same to Matthias NELESON, for himself and in
trust for Katherine MATTISON, widow of Matthias MATTESON, and her chil-
dren, and to Peter OULSON, all of Boughtown, N. J., confirming the grants
of Aug. 17, 1676 (supra, Salem No. 1, pp. 139, 140 and 141), which had
been taken by force of arms and carried with grantor to New York, and
making it in all for "the said Boughtown and 1,040 acres, surveyed by
Richard HAN-COCK, Deputy Surveyor, as follows: 380 acres of fast land, 300
a. of marish, 360 a. of swamp, along Delaware River from the mouth of
Boughtown Creek to a small creek, running into Fenwick's River or Game Creek. 16, 18 and 21

1678 May 11. Surrender of preceding trust. Matthias NELESON of
Boughtown, Fenwicks Colony, to Widow Katherine MATTESON and her six
daughters, vizt: Anne, the wife of said NELESON, Margrett, the wife of
Henry ANDERSON of Crane Hook on the West shore of Delaware R., Eliza-
beth, wife of Henry EVERSON of said Crane Hook, Walburr, wife of Oul
OULSON of the Bough on said Westshore, Breitagh MATTESON and Engburr
MATTESON of Boughtown, spinsters. 23

Contributed by: Luann B. Seamons

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