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

a Book of Patents, Albany, p. 451-457.

THE TOWN OK LEWISBORO.

seal of our Province of New York the first of which tracts begins in the western hounds of the said Equivalent Lands at the south-west corner of a tract of land in the land granted to Thomas Hawley and others known by the name of Lot No. 9 and runs thence along the lines of the said Lot and of a tract of land granted to John Ayscough to the eastern bounds of the said Equivalent lands then along the said eastern bounds one mile southerly to Lot No. 8 of the said lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, then along the north bounds of said Lot No. 8 and of Lot No. 7 to the western bounds of the said Equivalent Lands and then along the said western bounds to the place where this first Tract began, containing one thousand and one hundred acres of land and the usual allowance for Highways the second of which tracts begins at the northwest corner of the lands granted to John Ayscough, being two White Oak trees growing out of one Root, the one marked C. G. the other W. S. being likewise the Northeast corner of Lot No. 12 of the said lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others and the South-east corner of Lott No. 13 of the same Lands, and runs thence, along the bounds of the said lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, being the Line of the said Lott No. 13 to Lot No. 16, then along the bounds of the said Lot No. 16 to Lot No. 18, then along the line of the said Lot No. 18 to the Eastern Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, then along the said eastern boundry two hundred and seventeen Chains and two Rod to the said Lands granted to John Ayscough, and then along his Line to the place where this Second Tract began, containing one thousand acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways; the third of which tracts begins at the twenty-eighth Mile Monument in the Western bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and runs thence, South, Eight3T-three degrees, east, Sixty-seven Chains, then North, twelve degrees and thirty minutes, East, twenty Chains, then South seventy-seven degrees and thirty minutes, East, forty chains, then south, twelve degrees and thirty minutes, West, one hundred aud three Chains to lot No. 44 of the said Lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, and then along the lines of the said Lott andof Lott No. 43 to the Western bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and then along the said Bounds to the place where this third Tract began, containing eight hundred and ninety acres of Land, and the usual allowance for Highways, and the fourth of which Tracts begins at a Rock with a heap of stones upon it, which is at forty-two Chains distance, measures on a Line running North eighty degrees, east from the thirtieth Mile Monument in the Western Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and runs from said Rock South, twelve degrees, and thirty minutes, West, eighty Chains, then South seventy-seven degrees and thirty minutes, East fifty-four Chains, then North ninety Chains, then East fifteen Chains, then North fifty-five Chains, then North seventy-eight degrees thirty minutes, West, thirty-seven Chains, then South twelve degrees aud thirty minutes, West sixty-two chains to the place where this fourth Tract began, Containing six hundred Acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways ; the said four Tracts Containing together three thousand five hundred and ninety acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways ; and in setting out thereof, the said Commissioners have had regard to the profitable and unprofitable Acres and have taken care that the Length of said Tracts on either of them do not extend along the Banks of any River otherwise than is Conformable to our Royal Instructions for that purpose, as by a certificate thereof under their hands bearing date the tliirtieth day of July