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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 Lands, 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 Go vernour 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 where- 

 of and in Obedience to our Royal Instructions for that purpose, our Commissioners 

 appointed by said Instructions for the setting out of all Lands to be granted with- 

 in 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 Land 

 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 Let- 

 ters Patent, under the Great Seal of our Province of New York ; the first of which 

 Tracts begins in the Western Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, at the South- 

 West corner of a Tract of Land in the Lands Granted to Thomas Hawley and 

 others, known by the name of Lot No. 9, and runs thence along tbe Lines of the 

 said Lot and of a Tract of Land Granted to John Ayscough, to the Eastern Bounds 

 of the said Equivalent Lands, then along the said Eastern Bounds one mile south- 

 erly to Lot No. 8 of the said Lands, Granted to Thomas Hawley and others, then 

 along the North Bounds of said Lot No. 8, and of Lot No. 7, to the Western Bounds 

 of the said Equivalent Lands, and then along the said Western Bounds to tbe place 

 where this first Tract began, Containing one thousand and one hundred Acres of 

 Land and the usual allowance for Highways, the Second of which Tracts begins at 

 the North West corner of the Lands granted to John Ayscough, being two White 

 Oak trees growing out of one Root, the one marked C G the other W S, being like- 

 wise the North-east Corner of Lot No. 12, of the said Lands granted to Thomas 

 Hawley and others, and the Southeast Corner of Lot No. 13, of the same Lands, 

 and runs thence along the bounds of the said Lands granted to Thomas Hawley 

 and others, being the Line of the said Lott No. 13 to Lott No. 16, then along the 

 bounds of said Lott No. 16 to Lott No. 18, then along the line of the said Lott No. 

 18 to the Eastern Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, then along the said Eastern 

 Boundary two hundred and seventeen Chains and two Rods to the said Lands 

 granted to John Ayscough, and then along his Line to the place where this Second 

 Tract began, Containing one thousand Acres of Land, and the usual allowance for 

 Highways ; the third of which Tracts begins at the twenty-eighth Mile Monu- 

 ment in the Western bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and runs thence 

 South eighty-three degrees, East sixty-seven Chains, then North twelve de- 

 grees and thirty minutes, East twenty Chains, then South seventy-seven de- 

 grees and thirty minutes, East forty Chains, then South twelve degrees 

 .and thirty minutes, West one hundred and three Chains to Lott No. 44, 

 of the said Lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, and then along 

 the Lines of said Lott and of Lott No. 43 to the Western Bounds of the said 

 Equivalent Lands, and then along the said Bounds to the place where this third 



