Smith, for and in consideration of llie sum of five shillings to him in hand, paid whereof he hereby grants the receipt, etc., and discharged the said George Clarke thereof, hath granted, etc., (he being in possession thereof by virtue of a lease to him and others, bearing date the day of the date of these presents, etc. No's 39, No. 72, No. 37, No. 28, No. 25, No. 8, lot No. 4 being easterly, bounds 18| chains northerly from the monument, corresponding to the monument at the western bounds, at the distance of four miles northerly from the monument at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt Point. a

The following imperfect deed in the register's office at White Plains is all that remains of a conveyance from this Benj. Wilson to Joseph Keeler (another of the patentees of 1731) for all his right title and interest in the " Southern ten miles of the Oblong "

"Benj. Wilson to Joseph Keeler, know all men by these presents that I Benj. Wilson of Ridgcfield in the county of Fairfield and Colony of Connecticut in New England for and in consideration of six lbs. 12s. in hand received of Joseph Keeler of said Ridgcficld which is to say full satisfaction have given, granted, bargained and sold, and by these presents do peaceably, freely and also sell, convey and confirm unto the said Joseph Keeler, his heirs and assigns forever all his right, title and property and pretence whatsoever I have in or unto the within southern ten miles of the " Oblong or Equivalent Lands " so-called, accruing unto me by virtue of a Patent obtained with others of his late Excellency J110. Montgomerie, Esq. , Governor of New York by virtue of a release obtained of Adam Ireland, Jno.