Given under my hand and seal at Fort James, New York, on ye Isle of Manhattans, ye ninth day of March, in ye nineteenth year of ye reign of our Sovereign Lord Charles ye Second, by ye grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, defender of ye faith, and in ye year of our Lord God, 1666.*

" Richard Nicolls. " Recorded by order of ye Governor, the day and year above written.

" Matthias Nicolls, Secretary."

Siibsequenlly the three patentees made the following declaration of trust in behalf of their associates: --

" These may certify that we, viz. Philip Pinkney, James Eustis and William Hoyden, having a certain tract of land granted and confirmed unto us by patent, being granted and confirmed by Colonel Richard Nicholls, then Governor in New York, beiu^r granted to us, viz. Philip Pinkney, James Eustis and William Hoyden, and our associates -- the above mentioned Philip Pinkney, James Eustis and William Hoyden do, by these, resign up our particular interest that we have by patent, or which was granted and confirmed unto our associates, who have owned and subscribed unto the observation of a covenant, with this provisal, that they observe all conditions of our grant ; 2ndly, that they with us, and we with them, perpetuate, our and each of our interests of land, and maintain our and their enjoyments ; 3rdly, that we, with the major part of the inhabitants that are associated, have the disposing of land, but