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certain articles of argument were concluded between Col. Thomas Dougan then 

 Governour of this our said Province and the Council of the said Province on the 

 one side and Robert Forest, Esq., Governour of the Colony of Connecticut, 

 Major Nathaniel Gold, Capt. John Allen, secretary, and Mr. William Pitkin in 

 commission with him from Connecticut on the other side, by which it was 

 agreed that the bounds between the said Provinces and Colonys from thenceforth 

 should begin at Lyon's Point at the north of the Byram River where it falleth 

 into the sound from thence to go as the said river runneth to the place where 

 the common road or wading place over the s^id river is and from thence to run 

 north, north-west, into the country so far as would be eight English miles from 

 the aforesaid Lyon's Point, and that a line twelve miles being measured from 

 Lyon s Point according to the general course of the sound westward where the 

 said twelve miles endeth as the line should be run from the sound north, north- 

 west, eight miles into the country, and also a fourth line should be run from the 

 northermost end of the eight miles' line, being the third mentioned line which 

 fourth line with the first mentioned line should be the bounds where they should 

 fall or happen to run and that from the eastward end of the fourth mentioned 

 line (which was to be twelve miles in length) a line parallel to Hudson's river 

 in every place twenty miles distant from Hudson's river should be the bounds 

 between the said colony of Connecticut so far as Connecticut colony doth extend 

 northward, that is to the southernly line of Massachusetts bay, colony, &c." 



"It is hereby certified, that whereas Thomas Hawley, Nathan St. John, 

 Samuel Smith, Benjamin Benedict, Richard Olmsted, Thomas Smith, Ebene- 

 zer Smith, Daniel Sherwood, Benjamin Burtt, Thomas Hyatt, Benjamin Wil- 

 son, Joseph Lee, Joseph Keeler, James Benedict, Richard Osborn, Samuel 

 Smith, Daniel Olmsted, Timothy Keeler, Jonah Keeler, Matthew Seymour, 

 Joseph Northrup, James Brown, Adam Ireland, John Thomas, and Benejamin 

 Birdsall, inhabitants of the town of Ridgefield, as of the eastern parts of this 

 province, by their humble petition, presented unto his Excellency in council, the 

 third day of September, setting forth that they and their ancestors have for a 

 long time been settled upon, cultivated and improved, certain lands near the 

 eastern parts of this province, held by patent from the colony of Connecticut ; 

 but that, contrary to their expectations, some of the lands to be sold by patent 

 from the colony of Connecticut are supposed to be within that part of the 

 province of New York, commonly called the Equivalent Lands, and that the 

 petitioners, together with their associates, would be willing to defray the 

 charge and expense of finding out and ascertaining the true partition lines be- 

 tween both the said colonies, provided that 50,000 acres of the said lands be 

 granted to the petitioners ; and whereas, the partition lines between the said 

 colonies have been accordingly run out and ascertained by commissioners for 

 both the said colonies, being thereunto duly commissioned and appointed, and 

 sixty-one thousand four hundred and forty acres of land of the said colony 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 to them, 

 their heirs and assigns, his Majesty's letters patent for 50,000 acres of the said 

 land under such quit-rent provisions and restrictions as is and are directed 

 in his Excellency's commissions and instructions ; which petition being then and. 



