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  HISTORICAL 
  OUTLINE. 
  

  

  dated 
  in 
  January, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  19tli 
  of 
  March, 
  1770, 
  were 
  

   signed 
  by 
  Elias 
  Durnford, 
  as 
  lieutenant-governor. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  2d 
  of 
  March 
  of 
  this 
  year, 
  the 
  limits 
  of 
  West 
  

   Florida 
  having 
  been 
  extended 
  to 
  the 
  Yazoo, 
  as 
  has 
  be- 
  

   fore 
  been 
  stated, 
  Peter 
  Chester 
  was 
  commissioned 
  the 
  

   successor 
  of 
  Elliott, 
  as 
  governor 
  of 
  "West 
  Florida. 
  

  

  No 
  subsequent 
  grants 
  are 
  known 
  to 
  have 
  been 
  made 
  

   during 
  this, 
  or 
  the 
  following 
  year. 
  

  

  In 
  1772, 
  and 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  succeeding 
  years 
  to 
  the 
  3d. 
  

   of 
  September, 
  1779, 
  numerous 
  patents, 
  many 
  of 
  them 
  

   for 
  tracts 
  of 
  large 
  dimensions, 
  were 
  granted 
  by 
  Governor 
  

   Chester. 
  

  

  Philip 
  Livingston 
  was 
  Secretary 
  of 
  the 
  province 
  in 
  

   the 
  years 
  1772, 
  1773, 
  1776, 
  1777 
  and 
  1778. 
  Alexander 
  

   Macullough 
  held 
  that 
  office 
  in 
  1774 
  and 
  1775 
  ; 
  and 
  Elihu 
  

   Hall 
  Bay, 
  afterwards 
  a 
  distinguished 
  Judge 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   of 
  South 
  Carolina, 
  and 
  himself 
  the 
  grantee 
  of 
  several 
  

   large 
  tracts, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  the 
  proprietor 
  by 
  purchase 
  of 
  

   many 
  others, 
  was 
  the 
  Secretary 
  in 
  1779, 
  and 
  at 
  the 
  close 
  

   of 
  the 
  British 
  rule 
  in 
  the 
  province. 
  

  

  In 
  1768, 
  Daniel 
  Clarke 
  was 
  the 
  Clerk 
  of 
  the 
  Council 
  

   under 
  Lieutenant-Governor 
  Browne, 
  and 
  Francis 
  Pous- 
  

   sett 
  held 
  that 
  office 
  in 
  1769 
  and 
  1770. 
  Charles 
  Durn- 
  

   ford 
  was 
  the 
  Surveyor-General, 
  and 
  E. 
  Rush 
  Wegg, 
  under 
  

   whose 
  revision 
  the 
  patents 
  all 
  passed, 
  was 
  the 
  Attorney- 
  

   General 
  of 
  the 
  province. 
  

  

  These 
  grants, 
  and 
  the 
  deeds 
  of 
  conveyance 
  by 
  which 
  

   they 
  passed 
  to 
  other 
  hands, 
  are 
  exceedingly 
  prolix, 
  and 
  

   abound 
  with 
  the 
  technicalities 
  and 
  minute 
  legal 
  phrase- 
  

   olog}^ 
  of 
  the 
  age. 
  The 
  following 
  extract 
  from 
  the 
  former 
  

   is 
  worth 
  preserving, 
  as 
  a 
  curious 
  iUustration 
  of 
  the 
  esti- 
  

   mation 
  in 
  which 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  ceded 
  rights 
  and 
  privileges 
  

   were 
  then 
  held, 
  which 
  are 
  at 
  this 
  day 
  common 
  and 
  dis- 
  

   regarded. 
  The 
  patents 
  ran 
  as 
  follows: 
  — 
  

  

  