We do hereby give notice, that true maps and Meld books of the survey of the said part thereof, and of the allotments made, specifying the bounds of every lot ; on which maps the lots are laid down and numbered, and the number of acres in every lot ; and the said maps aud field books signed by us, and by Nathaniel Merrit, our surveyor, are filed, one of the said maps and field books in the office of the Clerk of the County of Westchester, and the other in the Secretary's office in the city of New York. And we do hereby appoint Wednesday, the 6th of August next, at the City Hall of the city of New York, to be the day aud place for balloting for the said lots and allotments; and do require all persons interested, then aud there to attend, aud to see the several allotments balloted for. Given under our hands this 23d day of June, 1766.

[Pat. 7,223.] "CHAR. CLINTON, ) Surviving

"JONATHAN BROWN, ) Commissioners."

We find thq following indenture, on the 5th of April, 1774, between Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, all of the West Patent of the North Castle, &c., of the first part, and Caleb Sands of Bedford, of the other part, witnesseth that his gracious majesty, King William the Third, of glorious memory, by letters patent, under the great seal of the province of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, in the fourteenth year of his reign, granted unto Robert Walters and others a certain tract of land in the county of Westchester, bounded, &c, &c, all of which tract of land is called the West Patent of North Castle; and whereas the said Benjamin Smith. Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton were deputed for to, and did, make a purchase of the greater part of the above-said tract of land for themselves and their associates," as by a general map of the same may appear.