In witness whereof, I, the said Jacob Leisler, have set my hand and seal to these presents, this one and twentieth day of May, A.D. 1699.

The quantity of acres I acknowledge be above the limits, I will not engage at all. Signed,

New York, 31 May, 1690. JACOB LEISLER, ELSJE LEISLER.

The same year, Jacob Leisler, with the consent of Elsje, his wife, conveyed to Alexander Allaire, one hundred acres. Also to Louis Guion, a tract consisting of one hundred and thirty-eight acres, Szc, &c.

THE TOWN OK NEW ROCHELLE.

The annexed receipt is taken from the town records :

New York, 8th Sept. 1690. a Item : received of Mr. Jolm Bouteillier, the sum of niue aud twenty pounds seveu shillings aud two pence, being in full for the last payment of his lauds.

Received by me,

RACHEL PELL.

The township of New Rochelle was first surveyed and divided into lots or farms on the 20th of November, 1693, by Alexander Allaire and Captain Bond, the latter being a surveyor. This division was made by running a straight line directly north from the old Boston road to Hutchinson's river, and laying out lots on each side of it. The land south of the Boston road, was divided into twenty-six lots. Leisler's and Lacounte's neck (now Davenport's neck) contained, according to the survey, two hundred acres.

Upon the 20th of November, 1700, Sir John PelU and Rachel, his wife, granted to Daniel Sampson and Isaac Cantin, one hundred acres, "provided that the purchasers and their assignees, shall do suit and service, now or at any time hereafter, from time to time in the manor court, and pay their proportion to the minister of the place. f