402 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



there read and considered of his Majesty's council of this province, did after- 

 wards, on the same day, humbly advise and consent that his Excellency do 

 grant the prayer of the same, &c, given, &c, four several tracts, the first of 

 which begins at the monument where the two lines intersect which are the east- 

 wardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, and is one mile, three quarters of 

 a mile, and fifty-two rods distant on a line running north eighty-four degrees 

 east from the monument, and the end of the twenty mile line from Cortlandt's 

 Point west to the east end of Long Pond, &c, then along south side of said 

 pond to the easterly bounds of said surrendered lands. 



The second tract begins at the monument, standing at two miles from the 

 monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point, 



The third begins at the eighth mile monument, on the westwardly bounds of 

 the said surrendered lauds, on the line running north twelve degrees and thirty 

 minutes east from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's 

 Point. 



The fourth tract begins at the thirty-fourth mile from the monument, at the 

 end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point, &c. 



"The Patentees yielding, rendering and paying therefore yearly and every 

 year forever unto us at our Custom House in our city of New York unto our 

 Receiver General for the time being, on the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin 

 Mary, commonly called Lady Day, the yearly rent of 7s. 6d for each hundred 

 acres of the above granted lands, and so in proportion for a lesser quantity there- 

 of, given under our hands at New York this eighth day of June in the fourth 

 year of his Majesty's reign A.D. 1731." John Montgomerie. 



This grant was also commonly called the " East Patent" from its 

 easterly situation as appears by the following receipt given for quit-rent 

 in 1760. 



"Received of the owners and proprietors of the East Patent, to wit, 

 Thomas Hawley and others, for a tract of fifty thousand acres of land in 

 Westchester and Dutchess counties, commonly called the Oblong, by 

 the hands of Abraham King, ^1,382, is. 5*/., proved money, being the 

 full balance of quit-rent which was due her majesty, on the said patent, 

 to the 8th day of June, 1760, old style, as witness my hand this 21st day 

 of March, 1760. "Richard Nicholls, 



" Deputy Receiver General. 



On the 8th of January, 1752, John Bowton of the East Patent, grant- 

 ed a tract of land, consisting of eighty acres, to Benjamin Rockwell, for 

 the sum of ^249. 



It is quite clear from the wording of the East Patent to Hawley and 

 company, that it commenced at the monument where the two lines in- 

 tersect (or, the angle is formed) at the eastern end of the twenty miles from 

 Cortlandt Point, on the Hudson River, near the south side of Long 

 Pond on the land and so ran north nearly 52 miles towards Massachu- 



a Alb. Book of Pat., 1761-17S9, pp. 4-19. 



