Solomon Tuttle, to an equal share and interest in any division or divisious of land that shall from time to time be laid out by order of said proprietors, upon ye land contained within the bounds and limits hereafter described, viz. : Beginning at ye place where ye twenty mile line goes down ye west mountain (a portion of the asproomhills) cross between ye pond and Stamford or Canfield's mill river, keeping upon said mountain near ye east side continuing northerly to Tappornuck's purchase running up between ye twenty mile line and Tappornuck's purchase, northerly by ye long pond from thence by Tappornuck's purchase line continuing by said line to ye road of our bounds and west ward by said line to ye twenty mile fine, that is to say the said Trusdale and Tuttle, their heirs and assigns shall have ye one and thirtieth part of said land as it shall fall to them by division provided they give an instrument under their hands to said proprietors (therewith to be recorded) to fulfil and execute every clause, condition and article hereupon named &c.°

From all this it is apparent that although Trusdale and Tuttle had obtained a patent, as they claimed, for a portion at least, of the Oblong, from the Connecticut authorities, yet the proprietors of Richfield had determined to enter upon and take possession of the entire "Oblong Division,"6 as they termed it, in virtue of their patent in 17 14.

A partition of the " Oblong Division " must have taken place early in 1729, for on the 31st of March of that year we find the Proprietors of Ridgefield coveying to James Brown, one of their number one hundred acres of land in the Oblong as appears by the following :