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

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1850. 286 words

Out of the above described lands we consent to - except the lands and fisheries reserved by the deeds of cession from Oneida and Cayuga Indians to tlie State, and the lands at the falls called Oswego Falls, on the Onondaga river, and the lands at Oswego on the north-easterly side of the said river, where the same falls into lake Ontario, which by any former laws of the State were inhibited from being granted ; and also sucli locations as have been already made : On any of the said lands sliould the above proposals be acceded to, we expect that an allowance will be made for all lakes whose area exceeds one thousand acres.

(Accepted) Jno & Nicholas I. Roosevelt."

Tlie application of John M'Kesson, for the purchase of four thousand eight lumdred acres of land, situate in the county of Herkemer, and bounded easte»ly by the former line of property, established in the year 17G8, being the west bounds of Coxburgh, and by lands granted to John I. Bleecker, northerly by lands granted to John Francis Perach6, westerly by the easterly line of reservation of the Oneida Indians, and southerly by the land granted to the said John I. Bleecker and the lands granted to James Deane, at the rate of three shillings and six pence per acre ; one sixth part of the purcliase money to be paid or secured agreeable to tlie advertisement of tliis Board, and the residue in one year from tlie 1 4tli of July last ; and -if the whole money be paid befoi-e that day, tlien the patent to issue for the said land ; being read and duly considered, (Accepted) Acres 3800 <£G65 0 0