THE TOWN OF EAST CHESTER.

Hinder ye obedience of his royal highness, his heirs and successors. Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, New York, on ye Isle of Manhattans, ye ninth day of March, in ye nineteenth year of ye reign of our Sovereign Lord, Charles ye Second, by ye grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of ye faith, &c, &c, and in ye year of our Lord God, 16GG.«

Subsequently the three patentees made the following declaration of trust in behalf of their associates: --

"These may certyfie that we, viz. Phillip Finknic, James Shute and 'William Haiden, having a certain track of land granted and conermed unto us by patten, being granted and conermed by Collenalle Richard Nichollas, then Goavcrnor in New Yorke, being granted to us, viz. Phillip Pinknine, James Euslis and William Hoydeff, and our associates each of the above mentioned Phillip Pinknine, James Shute and William Haiden do, by these resigne up our perticulere interest that we have by paten, or otherwise granted and conermed unto our associates, who have owned and subscribed unto the observation of a coviuante, with us this provisall, that they observe all conditions of our grantes ; 2ndly, that they with us, and we with them, perpetuate, our rate of interest of land, and maintaine our and their enjoyments ; 3rdly, that we, with the major part of the inhabitants that are associated, have the disposinge of laud, but not they without us -- we that are associate accordingly as our names are hearen inserted : --