That your Petitioners on the eighth day of June last presented their humble petition to your Excellency wherein and whereby they did set forth unto your Excellency that your said Petitioners were interested in fifty thousand acres of land which by Letters Patent had been granted to Thomas 1 lawlcy and others bearing date the eighth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and thirtyone, the same being part of the Equivalent Land, lately surrendered by the Colony of Connecticut to the Colony of New York.

That in order to obtain the said grant your Petitioners had born a considerable part of a very great and unusual expense in running the division lines between the said two Colonies.

That pursuant to a licence from this government your Petitioners had also born aconsiderablepartof the expense of the purchase from the native Indians of about eleven thousand acres of land not included in or granted by the said Letters Patent which purchase was made and the consideration thereof paid by your Petitioner James Brown as by deed, in the landsof your Petitioners might appear.

That the said eleven thousand acres of land were not returned at the time of obtaining the said Patent with the annual quit-rent aud the Patent charges.

a The early settlers, especially of Lower Salem or Lewisboro, when they first arrived here and even for some time after, imagined themselves within the bounds of Norwalk. The liual adjusuneut of the boundaries, left them in the province of New York. [Editor.]