And we do hereby give Notice, that true Maps and Field Books of the Survey of the said Tract, 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 and Field Books, signed by us, and by Nathaniel Merritt, 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 Thursday, the 7th of August next, at the City Hall of New York, to be the Day and Place for Balloting for the said Lots and Allotments; and do require, all Persons interested, then and there to attend, and to see the several Allotments Balloted for. Given under our hands the 23d day of June, 1766. CHARLES CLINTON. > Surviving

JONATHAN BROWN. > Commissijners."

On the 29th day of March, 1701, Samuel Quinby, of the West Patent of North Castle, for the sum of three pounds, sold Benjamin Smith, of the said Patent, "all that certain piece of land containing three quarters of an acre, or thereabouts, bounded as followeth: Beginning at the brook on the west side of the high ridge, near the house where Nathaniel Smith lives, and running along the west side of the road northward to a heap of stones, thence eastward and southward along the partition fence, and as the same stands to the said brook, then up said brook to where it began to have and to hold," &c.6 .