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setts. This, left ten miles south from the monument or angle to what 

 is still called the Wilton angle and south-west corner of the Oblong, now 

 the southernmost end of Lewisboro, bordering on New Canaan. This 

 section was for a long time termed the " Undivided Lands" and being 

 public lands were of course still vested in the crown. 



Among other claimants of these " Uudivided Lands?' in 1743, was a 

 Benjamin Wilson, (one of the original twenty-five grantees of the East 

 or Upper Patent, in 1731,) who, strange to say, asserted that his right 

 to dispose of the same, "accrued unto him by virtue of a Patent obtained 

 with others," of Governor Montgomerie of New York. In other words, 

 by virtue of the East Latent issued in 173 1, which had nothing whatever 

 to do with the " Undivided Lands" and also by virtue of a lease obtained 

 of Adam Ireland, Jno. Thomas and Benjamin Birdsell, all three of whom 

 were also grantees of the East Patent i73i. a 



Beginning at westerly bounds of lands surrendered on the line running north 

 12 degrees, 30 minutes east frorh the monument at the end of the twenty -one 

 mile from Cortlandt's Point, at a point 54 chains south from the monument at 

 the distance of four miles, and running from thence, south, 77 degrees, 80 minutes 

 east, 145 chains to the easterly bounds of the said surrendered lands, from thence, 

 running along the same easterly bounds north 12 degrees 30 minutes east, 294 

 chains to the north-east corner, etc., etc. — Albany deed book, 171, p. 453. On 

 the same day occurs another release between Adam Ireland, Jno. Thomas and 

 Benj . Birdsell, on the first part and James Brown and others of the second part, 

 for forty-two thousand acres of the said surrendered lands. (See map from book 

 17, p. 457.) Albany deed book 17, from 1765 to 1768, p. 457. "B" A third 

 Indenture 22d of June, 1731, between Wm. Smith of the first part and George 

 Clarke, Esq., of the second part, which recites that whereas by his Majesty's 

 letter Patent bearing date the 8th day of this inst. June, granted unto Adam Ire- 

 land, Jno. Thomas and Benj. Birdsell, and others, fifty thousand acres of land, 

 part of the lands called the "Equivalent or Additional Lands," lately surrender- 

 ed by the colony of Connecticut to the province of New York, as by said letters 

 Patent entered on record in the secretary's office of New York, Lib. 2d, Vol I, 

 etc., at large may appear, and whereas, by release bearing date the 15th day of 

 this inst. June, forty thousand two hundred and fifty acres of the aforesaid, fifty 

 thousand, of which the hereby granted lands is a part, were released to the said 

 Adam Ireland, Jno. Thomas and Benj. Birdsell, by the other Patentees in the 

 said Patent, etc. , and whereas the said Adam Ireland, etc. , by release, and re- 

 lease bearing date the 15th and 16th days of the this inst . June, did convey to the 

 said Wm. Smith twenty-one thousand one hundred and eleven acres, part of the 



a It seems that soon after the East Patent was granted in 1731,the Patentees, when they di- 

 vided and wanted certain lands they quit-claimed to each other— consequently we find several 

 Leases and Re-leases passing between the Proprietors. For instance, on the 15th of June, 

 1731, occurs an indenture between Thomas Hawley, Nathan St. John, Samuel Smith, Benj. 

 Benedict, Richard Olmstead, Thomas Smith, Ebenezer Smith, Daniel Sherwood, Ben]. Burt, 

 Thomas Hyatt, Benj. Wilson, Joseph Lee, Joseph Keeler, Joseph Benedict, Richard Osborne, 

 Samuel Smith, Daniel Olmstead, Timothy Keeler, Jonah Keeler, Mathew Seymour, Joseph 

 Northrop and James Brown, of the first part, and Adam Ireland, John Thomas and Benj, 

 Birdsell of the second part, whereby the former released to the latter 18,000 acres of land. 



