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.]

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

That the government of Connecticut in May, one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one in the most authentic manner had surrendered to this Colony the said Equivalent Lands. Pursuant to a former agreement in the year one thousand six hundred and eighty-three but had in the year one thousand seven hundred and seven granted to Nathan Gould and others fourteen miles in the length of the said Equivalent Lands which included a great part of the land purchased of the Natives and Patented within this government as aforesaid which grantees of Connecticut (called the Proprietors of New Fairneid; claimed these lands, notwithstanding the said surrender, pretending that it could not take away their Right of Freehold before vested in those lands, though it subject their land to the government of New York.