A Mirror's Secret

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 114, 20 March 1890, Page 4

A Mirror's Secret

X>w Yobk, December 23. Charles Roll of Newark accidentally ' broke an old mirror four weeks ago.. It h;ni f'rteu giveu to him years ago r , hv hi& graudfather The glass was fehivereu to atoms and an old age yellowed piece of parchment was disclosed to view for the first time in a century and more, as was proved by the nature of the .document. For seventy live years 801 l and his relatives have been endeavouring to gain additional evidence with which thay could lai claim to a wide stretch of land in the Mohawk Valley, along the banks of. the/Mohawk river. 801 l knew perfectly well that his Holland Dutch ancestor, Jacob Roll, had owned.a large, tract of land ther« Which ha.d been abandoned during the French and wars, butxhe neyer found any papers by which he could fix the position of the lan 3. The document which dropped from the mirror back four weeks ago was the important missing proof that the heirß of ; Jacob Roll, of whom there are 150, .have long: been iseeknig. Having found it, they will press their -claim to the property near Schenectady; N.¥l, valued at 6,000, 000d01i. The piece of folded parchment was « deed frdm therlndiflins to Jacob R911',---giving Roll a clear— title to a tract of land four miles" in length -along Mdhawk river^ -beginning: iu> the city* of i- Schenecta'dy and -ruanihg Iba'ck ■■■ from Ithe river nine miles? Theiwhole town of Amsterdam is believed to be included in the Indian deed, as are also valuable of the New York Central Railroad.