Always provided that nothing herein contained shall extend to, or be understood or taken to Impeach or prejudice any Right, Title, Interest, Claime or Demands which any person or persons hath or have or Claime to have of into or out of any part of the said Townshippe seittuatcd within the Limitts above mentioned according to the Laws and General Customs of this Colony but that all and Every Such person and persons may and shall have, hold and Injoy the same in such manner as if these presents had not been had or made. In Witness whereof we have caused the seale of the Colony to be Hereunto Alhxed this one & Twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred Ninety aud Seaven and in the 9th year of the Reigne of our Sovereign Lord William by the Grace of God and England Scottland, France and Ireland, King Fidei Defender &c. Bo order of the Gov"r ROBERT TREATE, Governor.

Eleazer Kimbekly, Secretary,

The above written with that or the other side is a true Copy of the Original being therewith Compared this 2d day of May, 1697.

Pr Me. E. K a

a Ancient Col. Rec. Conn. Deeds Ac,, Vol. 11, pp. 254, 255.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

From the town records it appears that in 1697, Zachariah Roberts'1 was allowed by the town, three shillings a day, and half his expenses, and the town further ordered that every man should pay him two pounds of flax for his expenses in going to Connecticut about the said patent.