400 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Cadwallader Golden, Esq., Surveyor-General of this our province, com- 

 missioners appointed by his majesty's instructions to his said excellency 

 for settling out all lands to be granted within the province of New York, 



To all to w7iom these presents shall come or may concern : 



It is hereby certified that whereas Thomas Hawley, etc., inhabitants of the 

 town of Ridgefield, as of the Eastern parts of this province, by their humble pe- 

 tition presented unto his excellency in Council, the 3d day of September, setting 

 forth that they and their ancestors have for a long time, being settled upon, cul- 

 tivated and improved certain lands neai - the eastern part of this province held by 

 Patent from the Colloney of Connecticut, are supposed to be in that part of the 

 Province of New York commonly called the Equivalent Lands, and that the Pa- 

 tentees, together with their Associates, would be willing to defray the charge 

 and expense of finding out and ascertaining the partition lines between both the 

 said Coloneys, provided that fifty thousand acres of the said lands be granted to 

 the Patentees ; and whereas, the partition lines between the said Colonies have 

 been accordingly run out, and ascertained by Commissioners from both the said 

 Coloneys, being thereunto duly commissioned and appointed, and that sixty-one 

 thousand four hundred and forty acres of land of the said Coloney of Connecticut 

 were lately, at the settling of the said partition lines surrendered to the said 

 Province of New York, for the use of his majesty, wherefore the petitioners 

 prayed his Excellency would be favorably pleased to grant them, their heirs and 

 assigns, his Majesty's letters patent for fifty thousand acres of said land, under 

 such quit-rent, provisions and restrictions as is ordered or directed in his Excel- 

 lency's commission and instructions, which patent being then and there read and 

 considered of his Majesty's Council of this province, did afterwards on the same 

 day humbly advise and direct that his Excellency do grant the prayer of the 

 same. In order to this granting, whereof, etc. 



John Montgomerie, 

 Aroiiibald Kennedy, 

 George Clarke, 

 Cadwallader Colden.* 



Upon the 8th of June, 1731, the following letters patent were issued 

 under the great seal to Thomas Hawley and his associates. 



ROYAL LETTERS PATENT FOR THE OBLONG, 



George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britian, France and Ireland, 

 King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come 

 greeting. Whereas before and until the year 1683 the extent bounds and limits 

 of our province of New York on the part adjoining to our colony of Connecticut 

 is altogether unsettled and uncertain and in order for the settling, ascertaining 

 and determining where the bounds of the said Province and Colony with respect 

 to one another should be, upon the three and twentieth day of November, 1683 ; 



a Albany patents, 1731-17P.0. pp. 1-4. N. Y. Col. MSS. Land papers, 1726-1731, vol. x,p. 156. 

 June 8th, Description of Survey Land papers, vol. x, p. 157, warrant for patent, June 8th.. 

 Land papers, vol. x, p. 159, Certificate, June sth, vol. x, p. 159. 



