PRESIDENCY OF FORT ST. GEORGE, 113 



No. XIV — {Continued). 



Year. 



Territory. 



How acquired, and District now 

 representing it. 



Approximate 

 Area. 



Land 

 Revenue. 



1801 .. 



Conimere — 



(Continued). 



(4.) Ceded with the rest of the Subah of 

 Arcot to the Company by treaty with 

 Azim-ul-Daula, Nawab Subahdar of the 

 Carnatic, 31st July (Aitchison, vol. v, 

 248). Vide Acq. No. XLIII). 







No. XV. 



1690 .. 

 1702 .. 



Tegnapatam . . 



(alias Fort St. David), sometimes writ- 

 ten Thevanapatnam, Devenapatnam, 

 Devanampatnam, Devipatnam, now in- 

 cluded in Cuddalore, the chief town of 

 the South Arcot District. 



(1.) September 1st. — The grant of land 

 for this settlement was purchased for 

 120,000 chakrams = 8,000 pagodas = 

 32,000 rupees from Rim Raja, who, on 

 the assassination of his elder brother 

 Sambaji (Sivaji's successor) by Aurang- 

 zeb, and the simultaneous captivity of 

 Sahoji, Sambaji's son, had been recog- 

 nised as the head of the Mahratta 

 dynasty by its subjects (Local Records). 



(2.) July 2nd. — Mentioned in the " Quin- 

 que-partite Indenture of Conveyance of 

 the Dead Stock of the two East India 

 Companies" as "all that fort called 

 Fort St. David (being a strong fort and 

 factory) and about three miles compass 

 of the circumjacent country, upon which 

 several small towns or villages are erect- 

 ed." 



(3.) June 2nd. — Surrendered to the French 

 under Lally, who at once razed all the 

 fortifications to the ground (Orme). It 

 was afterwards included in Cuddalore 

 (q.v.) 5 and its dependencies, instead of 

 being shown under a separate head. 



SQ. MILES. 

 10 



RS. 



11,130 



1758 .. 









No. XVI. 



1693 .. 



The villages of 

 Tondiy&rpet, 

 Purasav&kam 

 and 

 Egmore. 



Parwina from Asad Khari, Aurangzeb's 

 Grand Vizier, granting the English the 

 three towns, now included in the city of 

 Madras, of Tondiydrpet, Purasavdkam, 

 and Egmore properly Elambur, 10th 

 February (Local Records). 



8-8 



20,861 



5 Vide Acq. No. xi. 



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