" Beginning at a large white oak tree marked with several letters, where t wo bi^ooks falls into ye west branch of Moniaroncck River ; thence by marked trees to Brunxes river near tu where a small bnxik falls into said river, by a bush of .\lders, some of which are marked ; thence up Brunxes river to an Ash tree about 17 chains above Anthony Miller's Fulling Mill, and thence by marked trees to a white oak near Long Meadiiw Brook ; then down said Brook to where it falls into Momaroneck River, and then down said River to the place where ye west Branch falls into the river, and then up the said Branch to ye white oak where we began -- Containing 5225 acres, after 5 per cent, deducted for Roads."

' Land Papers, .\lbany, viii. page 124.

5 N. Y. Col. MSS., Ixiv. page 2',i.

^N. Y. Col. MSS., Ixiv. page 30.

PLALXS. 721

Hunt and Brundage, recommended "That the remaining part of the White Plains, after the lands of Hunt and Brundage be laid out as before mentioned, be granted to Joseph Budd, John Hoit " and the others named in the above resolution, subject to the saving clause therein contained. The report is indorsetl, " March ye 1st, 1721-2. Reported and approved of by the Council, J. 8. Bolin, D. CI. Coun." '

In compliance with this report, Cadwallader Colden, the surveyor-general, " laid out for Joseph Budd, John Hoit " and the others,