But notwithstanding this clear, certain, and obvious Eastern Boundary of the said Tract of Land, the Commissioners appointed to make Partition thereof, have filed a map of the said Lands in the Secretarys Office which takes in a very large Tract of Land on the East Side of the said Ridge of Hills, and have made Partition of part thereof, under a false pretence that, the Lands formerly granted to Captain John Evans do not extend to the said Ridge of Hills on the North Side of the Tract of Land Granted to John Bridges and Company ; and in order to include the Land which they say, lyes between the said Hills and the Lands formerly Granted to Captain John Evans, the said

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Commissioners have laid down on the said Map, a line Extending Due East two thousand Chains or twenty five miles in length : one other line extending North 29=' 30' West 1577 chains or Nineteen Miles and three quarters, and a third line extending South 61° West 761 Chains, or Nine Miles and an half-- None of wliich three lines are mentioned in the Patent Granting the same, as boundaries of the Lauds Granted ; nor can tliey by any Construction be made part of the Eastern boundary of the said Tract, for it extends JYorthward from the Due South line thereof to opposite the Hunting House, in one continued Course.

I beg Leave farther to observe that, suposeing the Lands formerly granted to Capt» John Evans, did not extend to the said Ridge of Hills on the side next to Bridges and Company, the Lands on the East side of the said Hills must remain in the Crown not having been Granted to any one. For by no Construction of the boundaries of the Land wliereof Partition is made, can that Tract run one Chain Due East along the North side of Bridges & Compyj far less 25 Miles as they pretend to do, for they are only to extend along the Land granted to Bridges and Company as it runs Korthward^ and if they cannot then immediately fall on the bounds of Capt" John Evans's Land and follow that likewise Northward 'till opposite the Hmiting House, They must, to supply the Defect in the Description of their Boundaries, follow the shortest Northerly Line that can be Drawm, wiiich will be along the said Ridge of Hills.