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- ■_;•.

^. .-?. Benj. Smith,

Caleb Fowler.

The principal proprietors of New Castle are the Wards, Concklins. Hiatts, Underbills, Haights, Carpenters, Greens, Kirbys, Davenports, Van Tassels, Griffens, Tomkins, Kipps, Secors, Bradys, Reynolds, duinb^^s, and Merrits, 6cc., &c.