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 :

"March 3lst, 1729, at a proprietors meeting held in Ridgefield (at above date) they did give and grant to James Brown, of Norwalk, and to his heirs and

n Ridgefield Rec. vol. 7, pp. 67-68.

b At a proprietors meeting held In RuUrefleld, Pec, Sth, 1729, it was agreed '■ that ye Oblnw Division go upon record in ye great book." Thomas Hawley, Register, Ridgfleld, Rec. vol. T p. t>2.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

assigns, &C., all yc right an interest they have into an one hundred acres of laud lying in the Oblong, so-called, adjoining to or near by the tweuty mile line, which is in ye grants of Connecticut and New York, as it is laid out unto him by ye committee which laid out our divisions in said laud.""

The very day after the establishment of the partition between the colonies of New York and Connecticut (May 14th, 1731) and the consequent ceding of the " Oblong " to the former, a patent passed in London, under the great seal of Great Britian6 to Sir Joseph Eyles Knight," Jonathan Perry, John Drummond and Thomas Watts, Esq., in behalf of themselves and several other merchants of the city of London containing 62,000 acres "commonly called or known by the name of the Equivalent land, because the same was formerly taken by the Province of Connecticut in lieu of the like quantity yielded to that colony by the Province of New York upon the settlement of their respective boundaries.