The Patents themselves only give their respective areas in what those instruments term " profitable land," that is, land that could be easily cultivated. But as the greater part of northern and central Westchester abounded in high semimountainous ridges, rocky heights, and great forests, characteristics which to a large extent it still retains, the " profitable land " really bore but a small proportion to what was then deemed the unprofitable land. How very extensive these great patents really

' From the original award signed by all the arbitrators, in the writer's

posspssion.

* Book I. p. 100, Sec. of State's Offe. Allmnj. *The "Middle Patent."

•Pliilipse's Upper Patent, now Putnam County.

7 The W'est Patent.

8 The Middle Patent.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

were, will be seen from the following authentic statement :

Peter Fauconnier, who was a surveyor, and as has been stated, an owner in all three patents, was, with Lancaster Symes, the active managers for the owners of all three patents. An account showing the amounts due from each owner, arranged under, the head of each Patent separately, dated in 1716, in the handwriting of Fauconnier is in the writer's possession, and it shows that the three Patents together contained seventy thousand, 70,000, Acres of Land. The headings of the accounts of the three patents are these ; --

" The first of the 3 Patents above mentioned containing about 30,000 acres of rough Land, between 10 Patentees." ^

" The Second of the 3 Patents here-above mentioned containing about 5000 acres of rough Land, between 13 Patentees." '