Jacobus Van Courtland, Obadiah Seely, Stephen Claeson, John Westcoate, jun., Richard Westcoate, Nathan Clarke, Joseph Hunt, Richard Ay res, Jeremiah Andrews, Joseph Palmer, David Meade, John Dibble, Daniel Jones, John Clapp, Thomas Hovi'ard and Vincent Simpkins, their heirs the said tract of 23,000 acres called ye town of Bedford, &c. Witness our right trusty and right well beloved cousin, Edward Vicount Cornbury, Captain General and Governor in chief of our province of New York and New Jersey, and ye territories and tracts of land depending on them in America, Admiral of the same, &c., in council at Fort Anne, New York, the 8th day of April, in the third year of our reign A. D. 1704.^

In the sprit]g of 1714 a rate was levied on ye proprietors of ye township of Bedford, in proportion to their several properties therein, for ye raising ye sum of £50 for ye discharging of her majesties dues of quit rent for ten years.

The proportion of Col. Jacobus Yan Cortland for 2565 acres in ye north west corner of ye patent lands

was £6 08 06

For his vineyard purchase, 607 acres . . . 1 10 05 For his right in Dibble's purchase, 762 acres . 1 18 00

For his right in ye new purchase. . . . 2 13 04 The following document is extracted from a manuscript volume entitled " the receipt book of the quit rents of Bedford, paid from 1714 to 1767."

" Received of Mr. Jonathan Miller and Joseph Seely the sum of fifty pounds, proclamation money, being in full for ten years quit rent for the town of Beda Albany Book of Pat. No. vii. 271.