" The Petition of Joseph Budd, et al., being read ye 21st Deer., 1721 Is referred to the Gentl. of the Council or any five of them." "

The same day the Council reported tliat they had considered the matter of the })etition and dire'ctedtliat a warrant sliould issue to the surveyor-general to survey the tract in question and make return thereof, with a map of the tract, and furthermore that all parties claiming any lands which are patented, adjoining thereto, should have notice of the survey, with the time and place of beginning the sanie.^

Before the issuing of this warrant a report' of survey, made by Robert Crookc, deputy surveyor, was filed (December 23, 1721), which is valuable as being more definite and specific in courses, distances and monuments than the Golden survey and report subsequently made under the last-mentioned order and incorporated into the patent.

No action appears to have been taken on this report of the Council, made December 21, 1721, until the 10th of January following, when a warrant w:is issued, reciting all the material statements in the petition, and directing the surveyor-general " to survey the said White Plains ; and in his return thereof to ascertain and describe the particulars of the claims of the petitioners, with a map of the said tract, and that the said petitioners give timely notice of said survey to all patentees whos grants they are informed joyne to the said White Plaii's."

1 Land Papers, Albany, viii. 89.