The Commissioners then appointed Charles Webb, at that time and for thirty years after, one of the best Surveyors of the Province and State, Surveyor to make the Survey under oath, which was duly administered to him, and also to Joseph Purdy and Gilbert Robinson as chain bearers and Doty Doughty as " flagg carrier," and then they adjourned to the next day, the 7"^. when the survey was begun. It was carried on daily till nearthe middle of the following August, on the l(jth of which month. Maps, Field books, and Joiu-nals of the Commissioners, were duly signed in triplicate, one copy of each of

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which was filed in the ofBce of the Secretary of the Province, one in the clerk's office of Westchester County, and one retained by the owners. On the 25th of August notice of the filing, and appointing the 11th of October 1774 as the day of balloting for the lots as surveyed, was ordered advertised in the pajiers. On the 4th of October notice to John Harris Cruger to attend the balloting as one of the Council of the Province was served. On the 11th of October the Commissioners and Cruger met in New York at Hull's Hotel, in Broadway, on the site of which now statids the " Boreel Building," and the drawing took place. The Survey and Map, a reduced copy of the latter of which is annexed, divided all the unsold lands then, in 1774, remaining in the possession of Colonel Heathcote's heirs, into three divisions, the North, the Middle, and the South Divisions, designated by the number of the respective lots in each. The balloting was thus effected, a boy blindfolded, one John Wallisby name, was appointed to draw the numbers of the lots, and the names of the parties. to whom they fell.