Fancher, 16th of March, 1830-- " also one other piece ly, at the south-east corner of Joseph Webster's land/omieWj* belonging to the parsonage, at a pile of stones and running northei ly by said Webster's, 14 chains and 25 links to a pile "of stones at the corner of said Webster's land, from thence westerly 5 chains to a pile of stones by Gould Uawley's land, thence southerly by said Hawley's land, 16 chains and 25 links to a pile of stones by the highway that leads from Hidgefleld to Bedford, from thence easterly bv the highway r> chains to ihe place of beginning containing 7 acres.'1 White Plains Kec, Lib. x.x.wiii. p. 183. The two meadows, one opposite the residence of Uriah Slawsou, the other almost in front of Sandy Barrett's bouse, are said to have been a portion of the Parsonage Lands.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

ami William Smith, were the parties solely interested in these lands, and had already petitioned the Crown on the 5th of July, of that year, (175 1 ) to grant them a Patent which was to include the same,a consequently their names are not to be found in the surreptitious deed dated six months afterwards. No doubt these so-called proprietors contended in opposition to Brown and Smith, that they had a right of freehold vested in the Lower Oblong, given them by Connecticut in years past, which no power could possibly deprive them of ; but the settlement of the boundary question in 1731, vested the whole Oblong in the Crown. This they had themselves tacitly admitted in accepting the East Patent from the Crown the very same year, and certainly they could never show any grant from the Crown for the undivided lands of the Oblong. It is a little curious that thirteen out of the twenty signers of the surreptitious deed to the Presbyterian Society in 1751, were grantees under the East Patent in 1731.