In the Secretary of State's office at Albany is a map of part of a tract of land (granted by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 1701-2, to Robert Walters and others) " which remains unsold, and contains four thousand one hundred and fifty-one acres, divided into sixteen lots by Charles Clinton, Jonathan Brown, and Elisha Budd, Commissioners, and Nathaniel Merritt, Surveyor, appointed by virtue of an act of the Lieutenant Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the colony of New York, passed the eighth day of January, 1762, entitled an act for the more effectual collecting of his Majesty's quit-rents in the colony of New York, and for partition of lands in order thereto," Szc.a

Upon the 10th of June, 1776, occurs the following public notice for the sale of the above lands :

" WnEREAS his late majesty. King William the Third, by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the 14th day of February, 1701-2, and of the 13th year of his reign j did grant and confirm unto Robert Walters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Reathcote, Matthew Clarkson, John Cholwell, Richard Slater, Lancaster Simes, Robert Lurting. and Barne Cosens j a certain tract of land in the County of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Cortlandt, easterly with Bedford line of three miles square, the White Fields and Byram river ; southerly by the land of John Harrison, Bye line stretching to Byram river aforesaid, and the "White Plains: and westerly by Bronck's river, and the manor of Philipsburgh, excepting out of the a Field Book, Sec, of State's office.