Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

North fourty five Degrees Westerly twenty five chains & Six tenths of a Chain Thence South Eleven Degrees Westerly one hundred and fom- cliaius & Seven tenths of a Chain from thence South fourty five Degrees Easterly fifty one chains & two tenths of a Chain from thence South Eleven Degrees Westerly one hundred & one chains from thence due Northw^est Three hundred & twenty chains to Hudsons river and from thence along the rivei- to the place of the first Station called point Robert wliich Said tract contains Six thousand acres be the Same more or Less To have & to hold the Said tract to the Said Robert Hunter his heirs & assigns to the Sole & and only proper use of her Late Majesty Queen Ann her heirs Successors & Assigns As by the same Indenture Containing therein Diverse other grants & priviledges within the mannor of Livingston & Diverse Covenants more fully may appear

May it please Your Excellency to grant to your Petitioners & tileir heirs his Majesty s Letters patent for the said tract of Land under Such Quitrents conditions and Restrictions as are usual & agreeable to your Excellencys instructions from his Majesty & your petitioners shall Ever pray

Jacob S Sharp Christophel Hagadoni. June ye 13th 1724

Read and referred to the Gent, of the Council or any five of them

KEPORT ON THE PRECEDING PETITION.

At a Committee of the Council held at the Council Chamber in New York June ye 13th 1724.