Thomas Dongau, late Gov. of our said province &c., and as by a certain deed or patent, sealed -^-itli the seal of our said province «S:c., and bcarini^ date the 19th of Feb., in the year of our Lord, 1CS4-5, pursuant to the authority in him then residing, for the consideration therein expressed, did further grant, ratif}' and confirm, unto the said Thomas Deleval, Frederick Philips, Geertje Lewis, relict of the said Thomas Le%yis, due their heirs and assigns, all the aforesaid tract and parcel of land beginning at a small rivulet known and called by the Lidians, Makakassin, from thence into the vroods due east by a great rock stone and a l>^le of marked trees, to Bronx's river, and thence by said river, four miles and something more, to a marked white oak tree upon the middle of a great ledge of rocks, which is the north-east corner of the land of Francis French & Co., in the mile square formerly sold out of the aforesaid patent, then by the said land, west, 3.5 dcg. northerly, 1 mile or SO chains from thence east 35 dcg. southerly to Bronx's river to a marked tree, which is the south-east corner of the mile square, excepted out of the said patent, from thence by Bronx's, his river, 89 chains to a marked tree, which is the north-east corner of "Wm. Eetts and George Tippets, and then by a certain lyne of marked trees due west 30 chains to the marked tree or south-east corner of the purchase of John Heddy, then due N. 34 chains, from thence due west by their purchase, 90 chains to the north-west corner of the 300 acres, then due south IG chains to the north-west corner of the 20 acres purchased of Jolm Heddy, thence and b)- the said land west 12 chains to the north-west corner, then by the side of the kill, south 18 chains to the land of "Wm.