From that period it has remained in the possession of the English, and the Duke of York on the 29 11 of June 1674, obtained a new Grant from the King, of all the Territories included within the '

former Letters Patent in 1663|4.

During the life of King Charles the Second, the Duke of York as proprietor of the Soil, passed many Grants (by his Governor) in Fee, and since his accession to the Throne, Grants have continued to issue

under the Great Seal of the Province,

Powers given the several

in consequence of the

Governors by their Commissions and Instructions from the Crown

-- Two instances only occur of -- One Joseph Eyles

to Sir Grants or Letters Patent for Lands under the Great Seal of Great Britain. and others on the 15 th May in the 4 th year of His late Majesty King George the Second for a Tract of 62,000 acres, called the Equivalent Land from its having been ceded to New York by the Colony of Connecticut (on the settlement of the boundary between the two Provinces) in lieu of a like quantity yielded up to Connecticut by the Province of New York The other lately, to Sir William

--

Johnson Baronet

--The Lands granted

to Sir

Joseph Eyles and his associates are not possessed by

them or their assigns, Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province of New York having passed to others for the same Lands, before it was known here that the Royal Grant was obtained and the Lands are now in possession of the New York Patentees or their assigns. These are all the different modes by which the Inhabitants have derived any legal Titles to their Lands within the Limits of this Province, whence it appears that all their lawful titles to Lands in Fee, except in cases of old Dutch Grants unconfirmed, originated from the Crown either mediately thro' the Duke of York before his Accession to the Throne, or immediately by Grants under the