402 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

there read and considered of his Majesty's council of tnis province, did afterwards, on the same day, humbly advise and consent that his Excellency do grant the prayer of the same, &c, given, &c, four several tracts, the first of which begins at the monument where the two lines intersect which are the eastwardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, and is one mile, three quarters of a mile, and fifty-two rods distant on a line running north eighty-four degrees east from the monument, and the end of the twenty mile line from Cortlandt's Point west to the east end of Long Pond, &c, then along south side of said pond to the easterly bounds of said surrendered lands.

The second tract begins at the monument, standing at two miles from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point,

The third begins at the eighth mile monument, on the westwardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, on the line running north twelve degrees and thirty minutes east from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point.

The fourth tract begins at the thirty-fourth mile from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point, &c.

" The Patentees yielding, rendering and paying therefore yearly and every year forever uuto us at our Custom House in our city of New York unto our Receiver General for the time being, on the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady Day, the yearly rent of 7s. 6d for each hundred acres of the above granted lands, and so in proportion for a lesser quantity thereof, given under our hands at New York this eighth day of June in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign A.D. 1731." John Montgomeeik.