Manor of Ph'ilipsborough : ^ " Yealding, rendering, and paying therefor, yearly, and every year, on the feast day of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, at our fort at New York, unto us our heirs and successors, the annual rent of four pounds, twelve shillings current money of our said province, in lieu of all former rents, services, dues, duties, and demands for the said Lordship or Manor of Philipsborough and premises."

In the parts of this essay treating" of these Manors severally, will be found copies of the official receipts for these quit-rents given by the authorized Crown officers to whom they were payable. Being im small, they were practically allowed to run for a number of years, and then paid in a gross sum. Upon Crown Grants all over the province, not Manor-Grants -- Patents as they were termed -- the quit-rents were usually fixed upon the number of acres included, or estimated to be included in them, at the rate of two shillings and six pence sterling per hundred acres. But though this rate varied in some instances it may be taken as the general rate. Some of them were payable in kind usually in winter wheat. As the Province grew the amount of quit-rents increased and came to be an important part of the public revenue. Several acts of the Legislature from time to time regulated the times and manner of their payment, when they had fallen into arrears, which was a common occurrence, the last of which was in 1762, which also carefully provided for the partition of large estates where they had come into the possession of numerous heirs. But space will not permit of more than this allusion to this legislation.