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.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

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Brown and William Smith should be as follows, in my opinion, in the warrant to the Surveyor General.

Four thousand acres of laud or so much of that quantity as the Petitioners shall think convenient for them to be laid out in several parts or parcels not excccding/oKr parts or parrels within that tract called the Equivalent Land, lately Bartended by the Colony of Connecticut to this Colony of New York and within such parts of the said Equivalent Lands, consisting of about eleven thousand acres of lands which were not included in or granted by Letters Patent bearing date the eighth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and thirey-one to Thos. Hawley anil others, nor to other person or persons by Letters Patent under the great seal of the Province of New York since that time. Mr. Ban yak: