But as we shall have more to say- about this remarkable transaction in its proper place, we pass on to the granting of the Royal Letters Patent to William Smith of New York and James Brown of the County of Westchesa N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. XlX, p. 121, 1744-1752.

t The original document is Indorsed on the bade " Proprietor's Deed," was witnessed to, twenty-three years after the signing but never recorded.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

ter, gentlemen, by Governor George Clinton, on the 22c! of August, 1752, for "four several tracts of land within that tract of land called the "Equivalent Lands," which are not included or granted by letters patent the first of which began on the western bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, at the south-west corner of a tract of land in, or late granted to Thomas Hawley and others, known by the name of lot No. 9, containing 1, roo acres, &c." The grantees yielding, rendering and paying therefore unto the king and his heirs, at the Custom House, in New York, on the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady Day, the yearly rent of two shillings and sixpence, for each hundred acres of the lands granted.

ROYAL PATENT FOR LOWER PORTION OF OBLONG.

George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.« To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: -- Whereas, our loving Subjects William Smith, Esq., our Attorney and Advocate-General of our Province of New York, and James Brown of t he County of Westchester, Gentleman, by their humble Petition presented to our trusty and well beloved George Clinton. Esq., our Captain-General and Governor in-Chief of' our Province of New York and Territories therein depending, in America, Yice-Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of our fleet and read in Council on the second day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifty, did pray our Letters Patent for four thousand acres of the land called the Equivalent Lands formerly surrendered by the Colony of Connecticut to the Colony of New York which Petition having been then and there read, our Council did afterwards to wit on the same day humbly advise our said Governor to grant to the petitioners our Letters Patent for four thousand acres of the said Lands to be laid out in one tract only, and whereas the said William Smith and James Brown by their further petition presented unto our said Governor and read in Council on the nineteenth day of November last past, suggesting that by prior surveys of sundry parts of the said Equivalent Lauds they found it impossible to lay out the said four thousand acres of land in one place so as to be of any advantage to them, the Petitioners did pray that the said four thousand acres of land might be laid out in so many pieces as should be found convenient.