Lewis Morris, for his further improvement, a certain quantity vi land adjacent unto the said tract of land-which land, with the addition, U-in" bounded from his own house over against Ilaerlem, running up Ilaerlem UivcT to Daniel Tmner's land, and so along this said land northward to John Archer's line, and from tlience stretching east to the land of John Kichardson and Thomas Hunt, and tlieuco along their lands southward to the Sound, even so along the Somid about soutliwest tlirough Brouck's hill to the said Col. Lewis Morris's house-- the additional land containing (according to the survey thereof) the quautitv of fourteen hmulred and twenty acres, to have and to hold the aforercc'ited trac't of land before possessed by him, and the additional hmd within the limits and bounds aforesaid, together with the woods and meadows, both salt, and fresh, waters and creeks, belonging to the said lands, unto the said Col. Lewis Jlorris, his heirs aud assignees forever, under the yearly rent of four bushels of good winter wheat, as by the said deed or patent, registered iu our secretary's office of our said pro%-ince of New York, &c.,-- relation being thereunto had-- may more fuUv and at large appear. And whereas, our loving subject, Lewis Morris, (nephew unto the said Col. Morris, lately deceased, his sole and only heir.) who is now, by right of descent aud inheritance, peaceably and quietly seized and possessed of all the aforesaid tracts of land and premises within the limits and bounds aforesaid, hath, by his petition, presented unto our trusty and well beloved Benj. Fletcher, our Captain General aud Governor-iu-Chief of our said province of New York and territories dependant thereon in America, &c., prayed our grant and confirmation of all the afore-recited tracts and parcels of land and premises within the limits and bounds aforesaid ; and likewise that we would be grticiously pleased to erect the said tracts and parcels of laud, within the limits and bounds aforesaid, into a lordship or manor, by the name or title of the manor or lordship of Morrisania, in the county of Westchester ; and whereas, it is publicly manifest that the said Col.