Harrison of the Council, solicited this controversy for Sir Joseph Eyles and his partners, which contributed in a great degree to the troubles so remarkable in a succeeding administration.''

June 8th, 1731. A warrant for survey was issued for fifty thousand acres of the Equivalent Lands for Thomas Hawley and other inhabitants of the town of Ridgefield.e In answer to the following petition by his excellency John Montgomerie, Esq., Captain-General and Governorin-Chief of the Province of New York, etc. Archibald Kennedy, Esq., Collector and Receiver-General; George Clarke, Esq., Secretary, and

a Ridgefleld Rec. vol. II., p. 82., Conn, and N. Y. Boundaries, 1729-1731, vol. I., six, p. so to 84. Patent passed 15th May, 1731. Registered 1st June, 1731.

6 " Two instances only occur of grants or letters patent for lands under the great seal of Great Britain-- one to Sir Joseph Eyles and others on the 15th May in the fourth year of his late Majesty King George the Second for the above tract of 02,000 acres called the Oblong. "The other to Sir William Johnson Baronet." See Hoc. Hist. N. V., vol. I. p. 7.">n.

e "Sir Joseph Eyles Knight was the fourth son of Francis Eyles, Esq., an eminent merchant and Alderman of London, and many years one of the directors of the East India Company, oreated a Baronet by King George I., 1st Dee., 1714, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Ayley of London, merchant. His brother. Sir John Eyles was of an ancient Wiltshire family, and received the honor of Knighthood from King James the Second and became Lord Mayor of London. Sir Joseph Eyles was .sheriff of London in 1726, Alderman in 1738, M. P. for Soutliwark and afterwards for Devizes. lie married Elizabeth, daughter of Alderman Sir -Jaffivv Jeffreys, Km., and died Sth of Feb., 1739-40, leaving one son and two daughters." Murk?'* Ext. and Dormant Baronetcies.