1687 May 2. Power of attorney. Stephen West of West alias Mackatoy Island, New England, farmer, to his brother William West of Shroesberry, carpenter, for the collection of debts in East Jersey. [1]
1688 July 10. Substitution. William West of Shroesberry substitutes as attorney of his brother (see preceding) "my loving and trusty brother Thomas Webley" [2]
1690 May 2. Confirmation to Stephen West of Shrosberry, holding by purchase from Nicholas Browne, 1-32 of 1-16 of 1-24 share, for 312 acres, bounded all around by unsurveyed barren land. [3]
"Stephen West (Bartholomew2, Matthew1), was born probably at Portsmouth, Rhode Island, about 1654, and died at Dartmouth, Massachusetts, 12 August, 1748, " aged ninety-four years." In 1675 he received sixty acres of land in Shrewsbury, || whither he had accompanied his father, but where he doubtless did not long remain, as, on 2 May, 1687, Stephen West, then " of West, alias Mackatory Island in New England," gave power of attorney to his brother, William West, of Shrewsbury, for the collection of debts in East Jersey.* Mackatory or Mackataw Island had been acquired by Stephen West in consideration of eighty pounds sterling, under date of 8 July, 1686, from John Cooke, his father-in-law, who had purchased it from Philip, the great Sachem. On 2 May, 1690, there was confirmed to Stephen West, of Shrewsbury, one-thirty-second of one-sixteenth of one-twenty-fourth share of three hundred and twelve acres, held by purchase from Nicholas Brown, of the same place. He executed a deed, 29 October, 1729 (being then of Dartmouth, Bristol County, Massachusetts), for lands in New Jersey purchased of Nicholas Brown, 7 February, 1687, to his children, Catharine, wife of Christopher Turner, Sarah, wife of Jacob Taber, Amy, wife of William Peckham, Eunice, wife of Beriah Goddard, Lois, wife of Jonathan Taber, and Ann West, all of Dartmouth. He married, in 1682, Mercy, daughter of John Cooke, of Plymouth and Dartmouth, by his wife Sarah. Warren [see footnote in original], born at Plymouth, 25 July, 1654; died at Dartmouth, 22 November, 1733." [4]
[1] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 124, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[2] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 124, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[3] William Nelson, Documents relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey. Archives Vol. 21. (Patents and Deeds, 1664-1703) (1899), 174, [HathiTrust], [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[4] Mary Elizabeth Sinnott and Josiah Granville Leach, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied Families (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1905), 228, [GoogleBooks].