"The complete settlement of the boundary line, (says the historian Smith,) was not made till the 14th of May, 1731, when indentures certifying the execution of the agreement in 1725, were mutually signed by the commissioners and surveyors of both colonies.

Upon the establishment of this partition, a tract of land lying on the Connecticut side, consisting of above sixty thousand acres, from its figure called the Oblong, was ceded to New York, as an equivalent for lands near the Sound, surrendered to Connecticut^

In 1728, William Truesdale and Samuel Tuttle who had obtained a patent right from Connecticut for certain lands in the Oblong were disturbed in their possession by the proprietors of Ridgefield, as appears by the following document :

"To the proprietors of ye town of Ridgefield greeting. We, the subscribers hereunto being settled on that tract or parcel of land on ye west of your town which goes by ye name of ye 'Equivalent land,' expecting that we might have been quiet there by virtue of a patent right" that we have obtained, but »vas very sensible that it is your design to enter upon and take actual possession of said land and allott it out to such proprietors of your town according to each man's propriety in your township ; and we being gotten upon said land and have been at considerable charge to remove our families and labor done on said lands, do now request and desire that you would please to account of us, as equal sharers