706 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



This' grant was subsequently known as the "East Patent," and in- 

 cluded not only a small portion on the eastern side of this town, but 

 the township of Poundridge and part of Lewisboro. rt 



The following notice of a survey and balloting for lots and allotments 

 of the before mentioned tracts of land, in the " East Patent," occurs in 

 a public newspaper of June, 1766 : — 



"And, whereas, we, the subscribers, iD pursuance of a certain act of the 

 Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and General Assembly of this Colony, en- 

 titled, An Act for the more effectual collecting of His Majesty's Quit-Rents in 

 the Colony of New York, and for partition of Lands in order thereto, have 

 lately made a survey of the first above recited Tract of Land. And we do hereby 

 give Notice, that true Maps and Field Books of the Survey of the said Tract, and 

 of the Allotments made, specifying the Bounds of every Lot ; on which Maps the 

 Lots are laid down and numbered, and the Number of Acres in every Lot ; and the 

 said Maps and Field Books, signed by us, and by Nathaniel Merritt, our Surveyor, 

 are filed ; one of the said Maps and Field Books in the Office of the Clerk of the 

 County of Westchester, and the other in the Secretary's Office in the City of 

 New York. And we do hereby appoint Thursday, the *7th of August next, at 

 the City Hall of New York, to be the Day and Place for Balloting for the said 

 Lots and Allotments ; and do require all Persons interested, then and there to at- 

 tend, and to see the several Allotments Balloted for. Given under our hands the 

 23d day of June, 1766. CflARLES CLINTON, > Surviving 



JONATHAN BROWN.) Commissioners." 



On the 29th day of March, 1701, Samuel Quinby, of the West Patent 

 of North Castle, for the sum of three pounds, sold Benjamin Smith, of 

 the said Patent, " all that certain piece of land containing three quarters 

 of an acre, or thereabouts, bounded as followeth: Beginning at the 

 brook on the west side of the high ridge, near the house where Nathan- 

 iel Smith lives, and running along the west side of the road northward 

 to a heap of stones, thence eastward and southward along the partition 

 fence, and as the same stands to the said brook, then up said brook to 

 where it began to have and to hold," Scc. b 



Upon the 28th day of September, 1725, Richard Ogden, of Rye, for 

 the sum of six pounds, sold to Russell Wood, of North Castle, "a par- 

 cel of land," that is to say, "twelve acres of undivided land, &c, within 

 a tract of land commonly called Ffanconier's Purchase, to be laid out 

 to my right when ye said lands shall be divided," &c. c 



On the 25th day of October, 1737, Thomas Hutchings, and Penelope, 

 his wife, of North Castle, for the sum of ^262 conveyed to Benjamin 

 Smith, of the same placfe, " a certain tract or parcel of land situate, ly- 



a See Poundridge. 



b Copied from original in possession of Bavid W. Smith. 



c Copied from original in possession of David W. Smith, Esq., of Kensico. 



