And we do hereby will and grant that these our Letters pattent be made and that they and the record of tliem in our Secretary's oifice of our province of New York, shall be good and effectual in the law^, to all intents, constructions and purposes notwithstanding the not true and well reciting and mentioning of the premises or any part thereof, or of mispelling of any word in the naming of the hmitts and bounds thereof, and of any former or other Letters patents or grants for the same or any part thereof made and granted by us or any of our Royal Ancestors to any other persons or persons body politic or corporate, or any Law or other restraint, uncertainty or imperfection whatsoever, to the contrary thereof in any ways notwitlistaiiding. In testimony whereof. We have caused the great seal of om-

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Province of New York aforesaid, to be hereunto affixed and the same to be entered of Record in the Book of Patents remaining in the Secretary's office aforesaid. Witness our said trusty and well beloved Robert Hunter, Esqr., Captain Generall and Governour in Chief of our province of New York, province of New Jersey, and the territorys and tracts of land depending on them in America, and Vice Admiral of the same at Fort George in New York, this first day of October, in the second year- of our rign, Annoq. Domini, 1715. (L. S.) By order of his Excellency

J. S. WiLEi^iAN D. Secretary.