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the Festival of the Annunciation, the annual rent of twenty shillings 

 ami six pence for every hundred acres." 



King George the Second, the same year, issued the following royal 

 letters patent to Joseph Budd, John Hoit, and others : — 



ROYAL PATENT FOR THE WHITE PLAINS. 



George by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King 

 Defender of the faith etc. To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting 

 whereas onr Loving Subjects Joseph Budd John Hoit Caleb Hoit Humphrey 

 Underbill Joseph Purely George Lane Daniel Lane Moses Knap John Horton 

 David Horton Johnathau Lynch Peter Hetfield James Traviss Isaac Covert 

 Benjamin Brown John Turner David Ogden and William Ycomans by their 

 Humble Petition presented to our Trusty and well beloved William Burnet Esq. 

 Captain General and Governour in Chief of our Province of New York in 

 Council the Twenty-first Day of December last did humbly pray that his said 

 Excellency would be favourably pleased to graut to them then: heirs and assigns 

 his Majesty's Letters patent for their Claims and purchase lying within this 

 province or the County of Westchester known by the Name of the White Plains 

 in such manner and under such Quit Rent provisions and Restrictions as is and 

 Directed in our Royall Commission and Instructions to our said Gevernour, which 

 Petition was then and there Read and Considered of by our Council of our said 

 Province untill the first day of this Instant they did Humbly advise our said 

 Governour and Consent that the prayer of the said Petition be granted. In order 

 to the granting whereof in Pursuance of and in Obedience to our Royall Instruc- 

 tions to his said Excellency given at St. James's the third Day of June one 

 Thousand seven Hundred and Twenty in the sixth year of our Reign our said 

 Governour together with George Clarke Esq. secretary and Cadwallader Golden 

 Esq. surveyor Generall of the said Province three of the Commissioners appointed 

 by our said Instructions for setting out all Lands to be granted within our said 

 Province of New York did sett out for the said Joseph Budd John Hoit Caleb 

 Hoit Humphrey Underbill Joseph Purdy George Lane Daniell Lane Moses Knap 

 John Horton David Horton Jonathan Lynch Peter Hatfield James Travise Isaac 

 Covert Benjamin Brown John Turner David Ogden and William Yeomans, a 

 Certain Tract or Parcell of Land Scituate lying and being in the County of West- 

 t and is Commonly known by the Name of the White Plains Beginning at 

 a large White Oak Tree Marked with Severall Letters where Two Brooks fall 

 into the West Branch of the Momaroneck River and Runs thence by marked Trees 

 to Brunxes River near the Place where a small Brook falls into the said River by 

 a Bush of alders some of which are Marked thence up the Stream of Brunxe 

 River to an Ash Tree about Seventeen Chains above Anthony Millers fulling Mill, 

 thence by Marked Trees to White Oak Tree Marked near long Meadow Brook, 

 then Down the Stream of the said Brook to the Land laid out for Daniel Brondige 

 Then along his Lands to the said Long Meadow Brook then down the Stream of 

 the said Brook to the Place where it Falls into Momaroneek River and down the 

 Stream of the said River to the land granted to Christopher Bridge then along 

 his Line and the Lines of the Land laid out for Samuel Hunt to Momaroneek 



