Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
The application of White Matlack and Jacob Hallet, for the purchase of townships No. 12 and 13, being two of the twenty townsliips surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th of February 1789, at the rate of three shillings and five pence per acre; one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on the first day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, the one on the first of January, 1792, and the other on the first of January, 1793, being read and duly considered, (Accepted) Acres 25,000 £4,270 16 8
The application of John W. Watkins and Augustus Sackett, for the purchase of fifteen thousand acres of land, situate between the military lands and the twenty townships surveyed by the surveyor-general, pursuant to an act passed the 25th day of February, 1789, beginniiig at the southwest corner of township No. 13, of the said twenty townships, and running thence west to the east bounds of the military townships ; then north along the said east bounds six miles ; then east to the northwest corner of the said township No. 13, and then south along the west bounds of the said township No. 13 to the place of beginning, at the rate of three shillings and five pence half penny per acre , one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid in three months ; and the residue in two equal payments, the first in six months
1076 PRICES OF LAND