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. Which Petition having been then and there also read our council did on the same day humbly advise our said Governor to issue a warrant to our surveyor general to survey and lay out the said lauds in any number of tracts not exceeding four. In pursuance whereof and in obedience to our Royal Instructions for the purpose our Commissioners appointed by our said instructions for the setting out of all lands to be granted within our said Province have set out for the said Petitioners William Smith and James Brown all those four several tracts of land within that tract of land called the Equivalent lands lately surrendered by our Colony of Connecticut to our Colony of New York and which are not included in or granted by our Letters Patent under the great