Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
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
and the last in eighteen montlis from the date hereof, being read anci duly considered. (Accepted) Acres 15,000 X2,593 15 0
The application of Robert C, Livingston, for the purcliase of townsliip No. 7, one of the twenty townsliips surveyed by the surveyor general, pursuant to an act passed the 25tli day of February, 1789, at the rate of tln-ee shilUngs and six pence per acre j the one sixth part of the purchase money to be paid on tlie 1st day of October next, and the residue in two equal payments, one on the first of January, 1792, and tlie other on the 1st of January 1793, being read and duly considered.