The same year letters patent were granted to James Brown of the county of Westchester, gentleman, for •• 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, first beginning on the western bounds of the said Equivalent, at the south-west corner of a tract of land in or late granted to Thomas Hawley and others, known by the name of lot No. 9, containing 1100 acres," &c. 22d August, \7o2>

The folio u'ing receipt appears to have been given for quit- rent due on the East patent in 1760. :;.-.

'• Received of the owners and proprietors of the East patent, to wit, Thomas Hawley and others, for a tract of 50,000 acres of land in Westchester and Dutchess counties, commonly called the Oblong, by the hands of Abraham King, £1382 \s. 5d., proved money, being the full balance of quit-rent which was due her majesty on the said patent, to the 8th day of June, 1760, old style, as witness my hand this 21st day of March, 1760.

"Richard Nicholls,

" Deputy Receiver General.^^

* Alb. Book of Pat. No. i. 1. b Alb. Book of Pat No. xii. 451.

26S HISTORY OF THE

Upon the partition of Cortlandt's manor in 1734, the lots (included in this town) fell in the following order to the devisees and heirs of Stephanus van Cortlandt, viz., one-half of south lot No. 7, east of the Croton, to Stephen van Cortlandt ; ditto No. 8, Gertrude' Beeckman ; ditto No. 9, Margaret Bayard ; ditto No. 10, Mr. Skinner. The above lots have been long since distributed among numerous grantees, such as the Meads, Keelers, Rockwells, Ferrises, and Bowtons, &c., <fcc.