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.

That in order to quiet this claim, your Petitioner, James Brown, in the year one thousand seven hundred and forty-two, for about one thousand pounds value in New York money, had purchased their New Fairfield Right within the Equivalent Lands, which purchase comprehended near two thousand acres of the laud purchased of the Indians and not included in the said Patent from this government.

That your Petitioners were solely interested in the said land purchase from New Fairfield, and not granted by the said Patent, and paid the whole proportion of the consideration for the same New Fairfield purchase. But are willing to pay his Majesty the annual quit-rents for these lands, and some more of the said lands purchased of the natives aforesaid.

By which petition your said Petitioners did humbly pray that it might please your Excellency, in consideration of the premises, to grant his Majesty's Letters Patent to your Petitioners, for four thousand acres of the said Equivalent Lands, including your petitioners lands under the purchase from New Fairfield Proprietors, and such other lands within the said Indian purchase as should be convenient for your said Petitioners, in the whole amounting to that quantity, with the annual allowance for highways, etc., &c, and that a warrant might issue to his Majesty's surveyor-general to survey aud lay out the same as by the said petition thereunto being had, may appear, which Petition on the 2d day of July following, being read and referred for consideration to a committee of his Majesty's humble Council for this province, (who thereupon made their report,) an order was made by your Excellency, with that of the said Honourable Board, that his Majesty's Letters Patent should be granted to your Petitioners for four thousand acres of the vacant Lands, &c.,&c.