Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
A. and figures 1791 ; and running from thence south eighty -five degrees west twenty-five ciiains ; tlien northerly on a parallel fine with the main course of the said bay forty chains, from thence north eighty-five degrees east to the bay aforesaid ; then on the shore of said bay to the place of beginning, supposed to contain one hundred acres ; at the rate of one shilling and eight pence per acre ; the one sixth part to be paid or secured to be paid tliis day, the one half of the remainder to be paid in one year, and the residue in six. months thereafter ; being read and duly considered, (Accepted) Acres 1400 JC116 13 4 The application of John Bay, for the purchase of the following tract of land, situate in the town of Katts Kill, in tlie county of Albany, beginning at a point in a course north seven degrees east, distant seveut}' ciiains from a white oak tree marked A. K. W. standing on a point of land on the north side of a brook or run of water, called by the Indians Kiskatamenakook, on the west side of a higii round hill, called Wawantapekook, and near to a small gullet leading into the said brook ; which said white oak tree is marked for the place of beginning of a certain tract of land formerly granted by letters patent unto Martin G. Van Bergen, late of tlie county of Albany, deceased, and runs from the said point of beginning north two degrees and thirty minutes, west forty-five chains ; thence north thirty-three degrees and thirty minutes west sixteen chains ; thence north forty-nine degrees, west seventy chains and fifty links ; thence south eightythree degrees, west forty five chains, and so continuing on said last mentioned course until it intersects the easterly bounds of a certain tract or tracts of land lately belonging to Sir Henry Moore ; thence Jiortherly easterly and southerly along the said tract or tracts of land lately belonging to the said Sir Henry Moore, to the southwesterly corner thereof ; and from thence to the aforesaid place of beginning, containing about six hundred acres, at the