New York Supreme Court January 15, 1841 (Gillett v. Stanley)

By the Court, Bronson, J.

The children of Captain John Otaawighton, the patentee, so far as the fact of their being Indians is concerned, were capable of taking by descent, and, with the approbation of the surveyor general, of aliening the lands which had been granted to their father. (Private Laws of 1809, p. 62. 6 Web. 7, ch. 25, act of 2d March, 1810. 1 R. S. 720, § 13.