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:

Please to mould the above Description in the usual form of a warrant retaining the above or substance in the same or other words and favor me with the right of the Draft before it is copied fair, and

You'll oblige your humble servant, W.\i. Smith.

19 Nov., 1751.

endorsed note to Mr. Banyar inserting description of 4000 acres of land in warrant to surveyor general.

In the order or minutes of Council in a little before June, 1723, directing any explanatory Declaration of the King's reservation if any to be inserted in Letters Patent/'

About one month after the date of the petition of Brown and Smith occurred a release and quit-claim deed from Joseph Keeler and nineteen others, (thirteen of whom were grantees under the East Patent in 1731,) to the first Presbyterian or Independent minister, "that should be settled and ordained" in the town of Salem, consisting of two tracts of tand lying on the Lorver released ten miles of the Oblong or Equivalent Lands, which is yet undivided, drc. 6