The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
Tract bfpan, Containing eight hundred and ninety Acres of Land and the usual allowance for Highways, and the fourth of which Tracts begins at a Rock with a heap of Stones upon it, which is at forty-two Chains distance, measured on a Line running North eighty degrees East from the thirtiethMile Monument in the western Bounds of the said Equivalent Lands, and runs from said Rock South twelve degrees and thirty minutes West eighty Chains, then south seventy-seven degrees and thirty minutes East fifty four chains, then North ninety chains, then East fifteen Chains, then North fifty-five Chains, then North seventy-eight degrees, thirty minutes, West thirt)r-seven Chains, then South twelve degrees and thirty minutes West sixty-two Chains to the place where this fourth Tract began, Containing six hundred Acres of Land and the usual allowance for highways, the said four Tracts Containing together three thousand, five hundred and ninety Acres of Land, and the usual allowance for Highways ; and in Setting out thereof the said Commissioners have had regard to the profitable and unprofitable Acres, and have taken care that the Length of the said Tracts, or either of them, do not extend along the Banks of any River otherwise than is Conformable to our Royal Instructions for that purpose, as by a Certificate thereof under their hands, bearing date the thirtieth day of July last past, and entered on Record La our Secretary's Office in our City of New York, may more fully appear, which said Four Tracts of Land, Set out as aforesaid, according to our Royal Instructions, We being willing to Grant to the said William Smith and James Brown, their Heirs a.id Assigns forever. Know Ye, that of our especial Grace, certain Knowledge and mere motion,We have given, granted. Ratified and Confirmed, and Do by these presents for us, our Heirs and Successors, Give, Grant.