HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

George Clinton our Captain General and Governour in Chief of our Province of New York and Territories therein depending in America Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of our Fleet At our Fort in our City of New York the twenty-second day of August in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-two and of our reign the twenty -sixth

Clarke Juxr

In the preceeding Certificate and Letters Patent the following Eraisures &c appear page 44S) line 11 (Smith) wrote on Eraisure line 15 and 16 (the first of which Tracts) obliterated last line of same page (the) obliterated page 452 between the second and third lines (begins) between 10 and 11 lines (first) iuterl 1 Line 20 (the) obliterated and page 453 line 19th (purpose) wrote on Eraisure Ezamd and CompJ with the Original By me. Geo. Banyab D. Secr'y.

I do hereby Certify the preceding Certificate and Patent to be true Copies of their respective Original Records, word Petitioners 15th line page 451 on Razure. Compared therewith by me Loris A. Scorr, Secretary*

James Brown, Esq. (attorney-at-law) one of the above Patentees was an early inhabitant of Nprvvalk, for among " the estates of Commonage of that place presented and accepted by the town, January 3, 16S7, occurs the name of ' James Brown, ^50. s.oo. d.oo.'1' The origin of mis family is a little uncertain j they were probably, however, a branch of the Brown's of Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, a house of ' no little repute.' Their monuments still speak of their fame ; the Church of All Saints, standing on the north side of the Red Line Square, in the old English town, was the gift of John Brown, who was an alderman of the city in 1462, and in the Church of St.