THE TOWN OF NORTH SALEM. 



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making it about six miles from east to west and four miles from north 

 to south.* 



The "oblong" (or " Equivalent Lands"), consisting of 62,000 acres, 

 was a strip one mile, three-quarters and twenty rods wide, and nearly 

 sixty-two miles long, set off by Connecticut to New York, May 14th, 



Noeth. 



Daniel Sherwood's Land, 



Beginning. 



West. » 



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170 rods. 





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Solomon Close's land, 

 326 acres, 







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June 8th, 1749. 



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180 rods. 





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£ East. 



South. 

 Common Land. 



1 73 1 ; and a grant of fifty thousand acres thereof made to Hawley & 

 Co., on the 8th of June, 1731, which left some twelve thousand acres 

 still vested in the Crown. The latter were denominated, common or un- 

 divided lands. 



James Brown, of Ridgefield, and subsequently of Lower Salem, was 

 one of Hawley' s company; and, therefore, rightly seized of certain lands 

 in the East Patent. The oblong map shows that he held lots 34 and 



a TJpon the 8th of Sept., 1775, Stephen De Lancey leased farm No. s, in Lot No. 10, contain- 

 ing 176 acres, to Nathaniel Delavan, for the term of 99 years, who assigned the same to John 

 Knox in 1788. This farm, known as the " Knox farm, ' was held by the De Lanceys until the 

 lease expired by its own limitation in 1874, a portion of the same continuing in the possession 

 of the descendants of John Knox, as tenants, till that time. In 1S75 the fee was sold by the 

 De Lanceys to Harrison Byington. 



