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. Now this indenture witnesseth. that for and in consideration of the sum of ^15 12s. of good current and lawful money of the province of New York, well and truly paid by the said Caleb Sands, one of the associates in making of the above said purchase, we the said Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton doth acknowledge by these presents, and therefore have given, granted, and released unto him, the said Caleb Sands, his heirs and assigns, all that certain part of the above recited tract of land containing thirty-nine acres, bounded as follows : by a heap of stones at the south-west corner of Bedford new purchase, so called, and running