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

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Petitioners our Letters Patent for four thousand Acres of the said Lands to be laid out in one Tract only. And Whereas, the said William Smith and James Brown, by their further Petition presented unto our said Governor, and read in Council on the nineteenth day of November last past. Suggesting, that by prior surveys of Sundry parts of the said Equivalent Lands, they found it impossible to layout the said four thousand Acres of Laud in one place, so as to be of any Ad vantage to them, the Petitioners did pray that the said four thousand Acres of Land might be laid out in so many pieces as should be found Convenient; Which Petition- having been then and there also Head, our Council did, on the same day, humbly advise our said Governour to issue a Warrant to our Surveyor-General to survey and lay out the said Lands in any Number of Tracts not exceeding four.