Given under our hands this 23d day of June, 1766.

[Pat. 7, 223.] " CHAR. CLINTON, } Surviving

" JONATHAN BROWN, \ Commissioners."

We find the following indenture, on the 5tli of April, 1774, betv\een Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler, and Joseph Sutton all of the west patent of JNorth Castle, (fee, of the first part, and Caleb Sands of Bedford, of the other part, witnesseth that his gracious mnjesly, King William the Third, of glorious memory, by letters patent, under the great seal of tlie province of New York, bearing date the 1 4th day of February, in the fourteenth year of his reign, granted unfo Robert Walters and others, a certain tract of land in the county of Vrestchesler, bounded, 6cc., 6oC. All which trpct of land is called tjie west patent of North Castle, and where-

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as the said Benjamin sSmitli, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sntton were deputed for to, and did make, a purchase of the greater part of the abovesaid tract of land for themselves and their associates,* as by a general map of the same may appear. Now this indenture witnesseth, that for and in consideration of the sum of £15 125. of good current and lawful money of the province of .New York, well and truly paid by tlie said Caleb Sands, one of the associates in making of the above said purchase, we the said Benjamin Smith, Caleb Fowler and Joseph Sutton doth acknowledge by these presents, and therefore have given, granted, and released unto him, the said Caleb Sands, his heirs and assigns^ all that certain part of the above recited tract of land containing thirty-nine acres, bounded as follows: by a heap of stones at the south-west corner of Bedford new purchase, so called, and running north with Bedford line till it comes to a chestnut oak tree, marked with a heap of stones about it, at the south-east corner of the land of Benjamin Hall, then westward to a white wood tree with a heap of stones about it, then south-eastwardly as the fence stands to a large black oak tree, marked, then more southerly as -the fence stands to an oak stump or a cliff of rocks, still southerly to a chestnut sapling, on a knoll of rocks, then eastwardly as the fence stands, to a chestnut oak tree, marked, still eastwardly as the fence stands to the land of Peter Disbrow, from thence to the first bounds, a heap of stones, (fee, &c.b .^ ■ ■ r- ■_;•.