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.

May it therefore please your Excellency, in consideration of the families, to grant to your said Petitioners, His Majesty's Letters Patent, and on the 'seal of the Province, &c, and your petitioners shall pray, &c.

Wm. Smith,

New York, July 5th, 1751, « James Buowk.

The following description of the Lands occurs amongst the Land Papers.

The description of the land granted on the Petitions of James

a New York Col. MSS. 1744-1752, vol. xiv. p. 120. A secoml petition of Wm. Smith and .las. Brown occurs on tne 19th of Nov. 1751, for lauds in the Oblong. Land Papers, Albany, voU Xiv. p. 120.