In order to this granting, whereof, etc.

John Montgomerie, Archibald Kennedy, George Clarke, Cadwallader Colden.11

Upon the 8th of June, 1731, the following letters patent were issued under the great seal to Thomas Hawley and his associates.

ROYAL LETTERS PATENT FOR THE OBLONG,

George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britian, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting. Whereas before and until the year 1683 the extent bounds and limits of our province of New York 011 the part adjoining to our colony of Connecticut is altogether unsettled and uncertain and in order for the settling, ascertaining and determining where the bounds of the said Province and Colonv with respect to one another should be, upon the three and twentieth day of November, 1683;

a Albany patents, 1731-1739. pp. 1-4. N. T. Ool. MSS. Land papers, 1726-1731, vol. x, p. UHk Jnnc 8th, Description of Survey I.an<l papers, vol. x, p. 157, warrant for patent, June SUV Land papers, vol. .\, p. l.v.i, Cei tillcate, June (>lh, vol. x, p. 159.

THE TOWN OK LEWISBORO. 40I

certain articles of argument were concluded between Col. Thomas Dougan then Goveruour of this our said Province and the Council of the said Province on the one side and Robert Forest, Esq., Goveruour of the Colony of Connecticut, Major Nathaniel Gold, Capt. John Allen, secretary, and Mr. William Pitkin in commission with him from Connecticut on the other side, by which it was agreed that the bounds bet ween t lie said Provinces and Colmiys from thenceforth should begin at Lyon's Point at the north of the Byram River where it falleth into the sound from thence to go as the said river runneth to the place where the common road or wading place over the s:.id river is and from thence to run north, north-west, into the country so far as would be eight English miles from the aforesaid Lyon's Point, and that a line twelve miles being measured from Lyon s Point according to the general course of the sound westward where the said twelve miles endeth as the line should be run from the sound north, northwest, eight miles into the country, and also a fourth line should be run from the northermost end of the eight miles' line, being the third mentioned line which fourth line with the first mentioned line should be the bounds where they should fall or happen to run and that from the eastward end of the fourth mentioned line (which was to be twelve miles in length) a line parallel to Hudson's river in every place twenty miles distant from Hudson's river should be the bounds between the said colony of Connecticut so far as Connecticut colony doth extend northward, that is to the southernly line of Massachusetts bay, colony, &c."