408 ITISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



ter, gentlemen, by Governor George Clinton, on the 2 2d of August, 

 1752, for "four several tracts of land within that tract of land called the 

 "Equivalent Lands," which are not included or granted by letters patent 

 the first of which began on the western bounds of the said Equivalent 

 Lands, at the south-west corner of a tract of land in, or late granted to 

 Thomas Hawley and others, knowa by the name of lot No. 9, contain- 

 ing 1,100 acres, &c." The grantees. yielding, rendering and paying there- 

 fore unto the king and his heirs, at the Custom House, in New York, on 

 the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady 

 Day, the yearly rent of two shillings and sixpence, for each hundred acres 

 of the lands granted. 



ROYAL PATENT FOR LOWER PORTION OF OBLONG. 



George the Second, b} r the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, 

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

 Greeting: — Whereas, our loving Subjects William Smith, Esq., our Attorney 

 and Advocate-General of our Province of New York, and James Brown of tbe 

 County of Westchester, Gentleman, by their humble Petition presented to our 

 trusty and well beloved George Clinton, Esq., our Captain- General and Gover- 

 nor in-Chief of our Province of New York and Territories therein depending, in 

 America, Vice-Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron 

 of our fleet and read in Council on the second day of July one thousand 

 seven hundred and fifty, did pray our Letters Patent for four thousand 

 acres of the land called the Equivalent Lands formerly surrendered by the 

 Colony of Connecticut to the Colony of New York which Petition having been 

 then and there read, our Council did afterwards to wit on the same day humbly 

 advise our said Governor to grant to the petitioners our Letters Patent for four 

 thousand acres of the said Lands to be laid out in one tract only, and whereas the 

 said William Smith and James Brown by their further petition presented unto 

 our said Governor and read in Council on the nineteenth day of November last 

 past, suggesting that by prior surveys of sundry parts of the said Equivalent 

 Lauds they found it impossible to lay out the said four thousand acres of land 

 in one place so as to be of any advantage to them, the Petitioners did pray that 

 the said four thousand acres of land might be laid out in so many pieces as 

 should be found convenient. Which Petition having been then and there also 

 read our council did on the same day humbly advise our said Governor to issue 

 a warrant to our surveyor general to survey and lay out the said lands in any 

 number of tracts not exceeding four. In pursuance whereof and in obedience 

 to our Royal Instructions for the purpose our Commissioners appointed by our 

 said instructions for the setting out of all lands to be granted within our said 

 Province have set out for the said Petitioners William Smith and James Brown all 

 those four several tracts of land within that tract of laud called the Equivalent lands 

 lately surrendered by our Colony of Connecticut to our Colony of New York 

 and which are not included in or granted by our Letters Patent under the great 



a Book of Patents, Albany, p. 451-457. 



