After long years of delay, Daniel Brundage and Josei)h Hunt, on the 28th day of June 1721, presented a petition ' to the Governor, praying tor a warrant of survey of the White Plains, and a warrant was i.-;sued the same day. * No report of a survey having been made, the same parties, on the 7th day of December, 1721, petitioned for a new warrant of survey to embrace the whole of the White Plains apon which the I following order was issued. :

" Now York, Deer, ye 7"', 1721. -- Ordered that a Warrant do issue to the Surveyor-General for surveying all lands ungranted by the Crown in and alniut the White Plains, and that he descrilie and ascertain the pretensions of Daniel Brundage and Samuel Hunt in and about the same.

"> Book of Patents, .\lbany, vol. vii. page 220. ' liand Papers, .MlMiny, viii. jKige 44. <i Laud Papers, Albany, viii. page 45.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The petitioners giving notice of the time of tlie said survey to all Patentees whose grants they are informed joyne to the said White Plains."

" W. Burnet." '

On the 21st day of December 2, 1721, Joseph Budil, John Hunt and sixteen others present their i)etition to the Governor, setting forth

"That by virtue of a license from the Government of Connecticut, they and tliose under whom they claim, did purchase from the Indians a tract of land called White Plains, the same at the time of the purchase being deemed and esteemed to lye within the Government of Connecticut, by virtue of which purchase your petitioners were, for a considerable time, in possession of tlie said land under the Government of Connecticut, and until said time as the same was found to be within [the bounds of the Government of Now York, since which time they have continned in possession of and made great improvements upon tlie same, and they being desirous to secure the same lands and their improvements thereon to themselves and their heirs under such interests, provisions and restrictions iis to your Excellency and Council shall be tliought fit; Therefoie, lunubly pray liis Blajesty's Letters Patent to tliem, their heirs and assigns, for the said tract of land, and that such methods may l>e ordered as your E.\cellency and Council shall think fit lor ascertaining the limits and bounds of the said tract and of the several possessions of your petitioners.