" 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.

This grant was also commonly called the " East Patetit" from its easterly situation as appears by the following receipt given for quit-rent in 1760.

" Received of the owners and proprietors of the East Patent, to wit, Thomas Hawley and others, for a tract of fifty thousand acres of land in Westchester and Dutchess counties, commonly called the Oblong, by the hands of Abraham King, ^1.382, is. 5*/., proved money, being the full balance of quit-rent which was due her majesty, on the said patent, to the 8th day of June, 1760, old style, as witness my hand this 21st day of March, 1760. "Richard Nicholls,

''■Deputy Receiver General.

On the 8th of January, 1752, John Bowton of the East Patent, granted a tract of land, consisting of eighty acres, to Benjamin Rockwell, for the sum of ^249.

It is quite clear from the wording of the East Patent to Hawley and company, that it commenced at the monument where the two lines intersect (or, the angle is formed) at the eastern end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt Point, on the Hudson River, near the south side of hong Pond on the land and so ran north nearly 52 miles towards Massachua All). Book of Pat., 1761-1789, pp. 4-19.