In the Secretary of Staters office at Albany is a map of part of a tract of land (granted by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the fourteenth day of February, 1701-2, to Robert Walters and others) " which remains unsold, and contains four thousand one hundred and fifty one acres, divided into sixteen lotts by Charles Clinton, Jonathan Brown, and Elisha Budd, Commissioners, and Nathaniel Merritt, Surveyor, appointed by virtue of an act of the liieutenant Governor, the Council, and the General Assembly of the colony of Nev»r York, passed the eighth day of January, 1762, entitled an act for the more effectual collecting of his Majestie's quit-rents in the colony of New York, and for partition of lands in order thereto," <fcc.<^

Upon the 10th of June, 1766, occurs the following public notice for the sale of the above lands : . ; . , ;. . •

" Whereas his late majesty, King William the Third, by letters patent under the great seal of the colony of New York, bearing date the 4th day of February, 1701-2, and the 30th year of his reign ; did grant and confirm unto Robert

* Town Rec. vol. i. 4.

b In 1743 Robert Walters and Peter Fauconier had rights concerning quit-rents on the West Patent.

« Field Book, Sec. of State's office.

366 HISTORY OF THE

Wallers, Leigh Atwood, Cornelius Depeyster, Caleb Heathcote, Matthew Clarkson, John Chohvell, Richard Slater, Lancaster Simes, Robert Lurtingi and Barne Cosens ; a certain tract of land in the county of Westchester, bounded northerly by the manor of Cortlandt, easterly with Bedford line of three miles square, the V»*hite Fields and Byram river ; southerly by the land of John Harrison, Rye line stretching to Byram river aforesaid, and the White Plains ; and westerly by Bronck's river, and the manor of Philipsburgh, excepting out of the bounds aforesaid, all the lands within Richbell's patent, according 10 the lines of the said patent, now in the tenure and occupation of Col.