And your Petitioners further Humbly shew that the aforesaid Robert Livingston soon after the Grants in form aforesaid made of the lands and premises aforesaid made application to the said Thomas Dongan then being Lieutenant Governor of the then Province as aforesaid, under false and fraudulent pretences that the said Robert Livingston had been at vast Charges and Expence in purchasing the said tract of Land from the native Indians and in improving and settling the same and for encouraging the future Settlement the said Robert Livingston applied to the said Thomas Dongan to constitute and erect the said Tracts or parcels of land within the bounds and limits aforesaid to be a Lordship and

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Manor and to confirm the same unto liim his Heirs and Assigns by Patent under the Seal of the Province. And did at the same time felsely and fraudulently suggest and represent to the said Thomas Dongan that the Lands granted to him the said Robert Livingston by the said recited Patents were lying together and were bounded and limited in manner following that is to say " On the north by a Line to be drawn from a certain Creek or Kill over against the South Side of Vastrix Island in Hudsons River called Wachankasigh to a place called by the Natives Wawanaquassick where the Heaps of Stones lye being near the Head of a certain Kill or Creek called Nanapenahekan which come out of a Marsh lying near unto the said Hills of the said Heaps of Stones upon whicli the Indians throw upon another as they pass by from ancient Custom among tliera and from thence extending to the Northerraost end of the Hills that are to the North of Tachkanick known by tlie name of Aliasliewaghkick and on the East from Ahashewaglikick aforesaid along tJie said Hills to the Southermost end of the same called Wicliquapakakat and from thence by a straight line to the South end of a small piece of land called Sakaqua and Nakawaewick and on the Soutli by a straiglit line to be drawn from thence to the Southermost Bounds or Eowcht of Roeloff Johnsons Kill and from thence by a straight line to a place on tlie River side called Sanskahamka whicli lies over against the Sawyers Creek and on the West by Hudsons River including all the Lands on both sides of Roeloife Johnsons Kill --