" Whereas the general court of Connecticut on the 13th day of May in ye year of our Lord Christ, 1697, hath granted unto the proprietors, inhabitants of the town of Bedford, then within that colony, all those lauds, &c, in their abutments, viz : southerly on ye bounds of the township of Stamford, westwardly bv ye wilderness, north on ye wilderness, and eastward]}' on ye wilderness or land not laid out, every of which sides is six miles in length, which said lands have been by purchase or otherwise lawfully obtayned of the native Indian proprietors thereof, &c, and the governor and company of the said colony assembled in general council by virtue of their charter afterwards to wit, ye 21st day of May, in the ninth year of King William, did give, grant, ratify and confirm &c, unto John Miller, sen., Daniel Simpkins. Zachariah Roberts, Samuel Seeley, Jeremiah Andrews, John Westcoate, John Miller, jun., and John Holmes, jun , and the rest, &c. The aforesaid parcel of land six miles square the privileges of being one entire township by patent.

We have given, granted, &c, to our loving subjects, Zachariah Roberts, sen., John Holmes, sen., Cornelius Seely, sen,, Zachariah Roberts, jun., Cornelius Seely, jun., John Miller, jun., Jonathan Miller, John Holmes, jun., David Miller, Richard Holmes, Jonathan Holmes, David Holmes, Capt. Peter Mathews, Col. Jacobus Van Courtlandt, Obadiah Seely, Stephen Claeson, John Westcoate, jun., Richard Westcoate, Nathan Clarke, Joseph Hunt, Richard Ayrcs, Jeremiah Andrews, Joseph Palmer, David Mead, John Dibble, Daniel Jones, John Clapp, Thomas Howard and Vincent Simpkins, their heirs the said tract of 23,000 acres, called ye town of Bedford, &c. Witiress our right trusty and right well beloved cousin, Edward Vicount Cornbury, Captain General and Governor in chief of our province of New York and New Jersey, and ye territories and tracts of land depending on them in America Admiral of the same, &c„ in council at Fort Anne, New York, the 8th day of April, in the third year of our reign A.