Esq , one of the Judges of the Superior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Westchester, Benjamin Rockwell, one of the witnesses to the within deed of sale, and on his oath declared that he see all the grantors to the said deed, excepting Benjamin Benedick, seal and deliver the same as their free, voluntary act and deed, for the usestherein mentioned, and likewise Ezckiel Hawley, one of the other witnesBes to said deed, appeared before me at the same time, and on his oath declared he see

the said Benjamin Benedick seal and deliver the said deed as his free

deed for the use therein mentioned, and 1 having inspected said deed and

find do material mistake or iutciliueatiou therein, and I allow the same to be recorded. CALEB FOWLER.""

a Copied from the orlfrlnal In possession of the clerk of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Society, South Salem. On the back of the document is this endorsement, '• Proprietors Deed."' W e are m>t aw are that this deed has ever been recorded. It certainly was not in 1854 when the eduor having made a copv of it by permission of the then clerk of the Trustees (Jacob Webster) had it taken out of his hands and destroyed. The present copy was made through the politeness of Cyrus Lawrence, the second, Esq., in 1ST4.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

With regard to this instrument we have had occasion to show, in one or two instances, that it was given by those who had received their title from Connecticut which title was abrogated by the transfer of the entire Oblong or Equivalent Lands to the Crown in 1731, and that the latter in 1752 granted Letters Patent to James Brown and William Smith for four thousands acres of land within the Oblong or Equivalent, consisting then of about eleven thousand acres of land, which were not included in or granted by Letters Patent 8th of June, 1731, to Thomas Hawley and others (the above grantors).