This Indenture made the eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three between Abraham De Peyster, of the city of New York, Esq., Elizabeth Hamilton, of the city of New York, widow, Isaac Do Peyster, of the city of New York, gentleman, and Anu, his wife, and Peter De Peyster, of the city of New York, gentleman, of the first part, and Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton, of the County of Westchester in the province of New York, yeomen and their associates of the second part; whereas His most gracious Majesty King William the Third of glorious memory by his 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 Waters, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius De Peyster and others and to their Heirs and assigns forever. All that certain Tract of land in the County of Westchester ; bounded northerly by the manor of Cortland, easterly with Bedford line of three miles square, the White Field and Byram River, southerly by the land of John Harrison, Rye line stretching to Byram River aforesaid and the White Plains, and westerly by Bruncks River and the manor of Philipsburgh (excepting out of the bounds aforesaid all the land within Richbell's Patent) which said Tract is now called and known by the name of the West Patent ; and whereas the said Cornelius De Peyster, one of the Patentees in the said Letters Patent named by Indentures of Lease and Release bearing date the twenty-third and twenty-fourth days of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty-eight, reciting as therein is recited, did grant and couvey