Section 341. Recitals as to heirships in conveyances

Hereafter, in any
  special proceeding or action in any of the courts  of  this  state,  any
  deed,  mortgage,  lease,  release, power of attorney or other instrument
  more than ten years old, executed for the purpose  of  transferring  the
  title  to  or  interest  in  lands,  tenements or hereditaments situated
  within this state, which contains recitals that the grantors,  grantees,
  or  either,  or both, are the heirs at law of a prior owner of the title
  or interest described in said instrument, or a survivor of a tenancy  by
  the  entirety  or  joint  tenancy, shall be presumptive evidence of said
  heirship,  or  of  such  survivorship,  as  therein  recited,  if   such
  instrument  be  duly  acknowledged or witnessed and proved in any manner
  required or permitted at the date of the execution thereof, and be  duly
  recorded  in  any  county  where any part of the lands described therein
  shall be located, or duly recorded in the office  of  the  secretary  of
  state of the state of New York.