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Excerpt from Southold Town Records, Vol. 2: Copied and Explanatory Notes Sometimes the transcript has been made literally, word for word; and sometimes abstracts have been made of long, antique, technical documents, which are so prolix, verbose, repetitious, and obscure, that, as one has wittily said, if a fog-horn should be sounded in the middle of one of them, none but a lawyer could hear it at the beginning or the end of the document. In all these abstracts the substance of the original has been faithfully retained, including the dates of the transaction and of its record; the names of the persons concerned, and of the witnesses and all others engaged; and in cases of the conveyance of land, the description and the boundaries of the property. There are a few entries in Liber D that pertain to the period covered by the Records in Liber C. But for many reasons it has not been deemed best to print them in this volume apart from their original surroundings. They are not sufficiently numerous and important to make it necessary. Another generation may judge it desirable to print the whole of Liber D, with every part of it in its proper place and order. The Notes written by J. W. Case, Esq., and printed in this volume, show the same carefulness, intelligence, good sense, and clearness of statement which mark those from the same pen in the first volume of the Records. These Notes add greatly to the value of the work of transcription which he has laboriously accomplished. Both the Transcriber and the Towns should be most heartily congratulated on the successful performance of the undertaking so properly intrusted to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.