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. In Pursuance whereof and in Obedience to our Royal Instructions for that purpose, our Commissioners appointed by said Instructions for the setting out of all Lands to be granted within our said Province, Have set out for the said Petitioners, William Smith and James Brown, All those four several Tracts of Land within that Tract of Land called the Equivalent Lands, lately Surrendered by our Colony of Connecticut to our Colony of New York, and which are not included in or granted by our Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of our Province of New York ; the first of which Tracts begins in the Western Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, at the South- West corner of a Tract of Land in the Lands Granted to Thomas Hawley and others, known by the name of Lot No. 0, and runs thence along the Lines of the said Lot and of a Tract of Land Granted to John Ayscough, t<> the Eastern Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, then along the said Eastern Bounds one mile southerly to Lot No. 8 of the said Lands, Granted to Thomas Hawlcy and others, then alongthe North Boundsof said LotNo. 8, and of Lot No. 7, to the Western Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and then along the said Western Bounds to the place where this first Tract began, Containing one thousand and one hundred Acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways, the Second of which Tracts begins at the North West corner of the Lands granted to John Ayscough, being two White Oak trees growing out of one Root, the one marked C G the other W S, being likewise the North-east Corner of Lot No. 12, of the said Lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, and the Southeast Comer of Lot No. 13, of the same Lands, and runs thence along the bounds of the said Lands granted to Thomas Hawley and others, being the Line of the said Lott No. 13 to Lott No. 16, then alongthe bounds of said Lott No. 1 6 to Lott No.