For Testimony whereof the parties to these presents have hereunto interchangeably set their hand and seal the day and year first above written. Piehiie De Peyster, Anne De Peyster,

Isaac DePeyster, Elizabeth Hamilton, Sealed and delivered in the presence of, A. D : Peyster.

By Abraham De Peyster in the presence of Samuel Jones ; Catharine Livingston, by • Elizabeth Hamilton in the presence of Tobias Hotttraburgh, JonN Montange.

Sealed and delivered by the within named Isaac De Peyster, Ann, his wife, and Peter De Peyster in the presence of us, Samuel Jones, Abraham De Peyster, Jun.*1

PATENT.

George the Second, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland.

King, Defender of the Faith, &c.« To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, our Loving Subjects, William Smith, Esq., our Attorney and Advocate-General of our Province of New York, and James Brown, of the Comity of Westchester, gentleman, by their humble Petition, presented to our Trusty and Well-beloved George Clinton, Esq., our Captain-General and Governor-in- Chief of our Province of New York and Territories therein depending in America, Vice-Admiral of the same, and Admiral of the White Squadron of our fleet, and read in Council on the second day of July, one thousand seven hundred and fifty, did pray our Letters Patent for four thousand Acres of the land called t!ie Equivalent Lands, formerly surrendered by the Colony of Connecticut to the Colony of New York, which Petition having been then and there read in Couucil, did afterwards, to wit : in the same day humbly Advise our said Governor to grant to the