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holders and Inhabitants of the Torcnship of Rye in the County of Westchester in 

 the Province of Neic Yorkby their Humble Petition presented to our trusty and 

 well-beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler, President of our Couucill for our Province 

 of New York aforesaid, Have set forth that they and their ancestors and prede- 

 cessors under whom they hold have held and improved at their great charge with 

 their labour and industry, a Certain Tract of land bordering upon the line of 

 Division between this Province and Connecticut Colony for which they nor their 

 ancestors and predecessors hitherto have had no patent under the Seal of the 

 province of New York, Which said Tract of land is situate and being between 

 Byra/m River and Blind Brook and Begins at a Certain rock being the ending of 

 a point of land commonly known by the Name of Town Neck Point and in the 

 Southermost point of the said Tract of land, thence running Easterly by the 

 Sound to a point near the mouth of said Byrams River called Byrams Point in- 

 cluding a certain Island called Mounsons Island and from the said Byram Point 

 Northerly up Byram River on the East side of the said River as the Colony line 

 is at present supposed to be run by the inhabitants of the Neighborhood to a 

 rock standing on the East side of the said River by the wadeing place and the 

 high road leading to Connecticut, then North twenty-four degrees, thirty minutes, 

 West three hundred and forty-eight chains as the line which divides this Province 

 from Connecticut is supposed to run by the said inhabitants to a Wallnut tree 

 marked with three knotches on three sides being twelve chains on a straight 

 line to an Ash Tree Marked with three knotches on three sides standing near 

 blind Brook then down the said Brook untill it emptys it self into a Creek called 

 Mill Creek and then by the said Creek to the place where it Begun, Containing 

 Four Thousand and Five Hundred acres of Land or thereabout, after eighteen 

 small Tracts of land which lye within the said bounds and are part of twenty 

 small Tracts formerly granted the Reverend Christopher Bridge in his life time 

 are deducted and allowance being made for the Kings Highways and prayed to 

 have our Grant and Letters Patent for the same under the Great Seal of the 

 Province of New York in the manner following that is to say. To Hold to them 

 and their heirs and assigns for ever but to and for the use and uses following and 

 to no other use whatsoever (that is to say) As for and concerning such Tracts of 

 Land and hereditaments parts of the before receited Four Thousand Five Hun- 

 dred Acres of Land and Island whereof they the said Daniel Purdy, Samuel 

 Brown and Benjamin Brown are and stand Lawfully and Rightfully seized and 

 possessed in their own severall and respective rights interests and Estate to and 

 for the sole and only proper use Benefit and Behoofe of the aforesaid Daniel 

 Purdy, Samuel Brown and Benjamin Brown severally and respectively and of 

 their severall and respective heirs and assigns forever. And as for and concern- 

 ing such other Tracts of Land and hereditaments parts of the before recited Four 

 Thousand Five Hundred Acres of Land and Island which are belonging and Ap- 

 pertaining to severall other persons Freeholders and Inhabitants within the 

 bounds and limits of the same Four Thousand Five Hundred Acres of Land and 

 Island some of more some of less according to their several seperate and particu- 

 lar interest in trust to and for the sole and only proper use benefit and behoofe 

 of each particular Freeholder and Inhabitant particularly and respectively and of 

 each their particular and respective heirs and assigns forever in as full and ample 

 manner as if their particular Names and their particular and severall Freeholds 



