commander in chief of our province of New York, within our faid colony of Connecticut, for and during our pleasure.

In Witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patent.

Witness ourself at Westminster the first Day of August in the twenty-feventh year of our reign.

By writ of privy seal,

YORKE and YORKE.

With the fame view of fhewing the refémblance of the civil conftitutions given to the two provinces of Quebec and New York by his Majesty's commiffions and inftructions to his governours of them, I shall likewife infert the following copy of a grant of lands in the province of New York made in pursuance of his Majefty's instructions for that province, which will be found to be but little different from the grants of land in the province of Quebec that have been herein above recited.

DRAFT

DRAFT of Letters Patent for a Tract of Land in

the Province of NEW YORK, erecting the fame into a Township.

GEORGE the THIRD, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and fo forth; To all to whom thefe Prefents fhall come, Greeting:

the governour

tract of land.

WHE HEREAS our loving fubjects A, B, C, D, &c. by their Petition of dihumble petition prefented unto our trusty and well-beloved vers perfens to Sir Henry Moore, baronet, our captain-general and governour in for a grant of a chief of our province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America, chancellor and vice-admiral of the fame, and read in our council for our faid province on the twenty-first day of June now last past, did set forth that the petitioners had discovered a vacant tract of land [here recite to the end of the Petition].

committee of the

province.

Which petition having been then and there referred to a com- Reference of the mittee of our council of our faid province, our faid council did faid petition to a afterwards on the fame day, in pursuance of the report of the fame council of the committee, humbly advife and confent that our faid captain-general Advice of the and governour in chief should by our letters patent grant to each of council to the the faid petitioners, and their respective heirs, the quantity of one grant 1000 acres thoufand acres of the tract of land aforefaid under the quit-rent, land petitioned provifoes, limitations, and restrictions prescribed by our royal in- for to each of ftructions.

governour to

of the tract of

the petitioners.

fioners for fet

lands to be granted in the

Wherefore, in obedience to our faid royal inftructions, our com- The commifmiffioners appointed for the fetting out all lands to be granted within ting out all our faid province have set out for them the faid A, B, C, D, &c. all that certain tract or parcel of land within our province of New York, fituate, lying, and being in the county of Albany, on the eaft fide of Schohary, adjoining to the patent of Schohary and other

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patented

province have land for the pe

fet out a tract of

titioners. Description of the land fo fet out,

patented lands there; which faid tract or parcel of land is part of a tract of land purchased by the faid A, B, and others, of the native Indian proprietors thereof, as appears by the Indian deed filed in the fecretary's office bearing date the fixth day of June one thousand seven hundred and fixty-four; which faid tract or parcel of land begins at the north-east corner of the northernmost of two tracts of land formerly granted to Lambertus Starnbergher and Adam Starnbergher; and runs from thence north, twenty-feven degrees east, ninety-two chains; then fouth, fixty-fix degrees eaft, one hundred and fifty-five chains; then fouth, thirty-one degrees eaft, two huñdred and ten chains; then fouth, thirty-two degrees weft, two hundred and eighty-four chains; then north, fifty degrees weft, two hundred and eighty chains; then fouth, twenty-feven degrees weft, one hundred and fifty-four chains; then north, fifty-nine degrees weft, one hundred and thirty-feven chains; then north, twenty-five degrees eaft, twenty-eight chains, to the fouthermoft of the faid two tracts of land granted to the faid Lambertus and Adam Starnbergher; and then, along the foutherly and eafterly bounds of the faid fouthernmost tract, to a tract of land granted to Johannes Lawyer and Philip Bergh; and then, along the foutherly, easterly, and northerly bounds of this last-mentioned tract, as they run, to, the first mentioned tract granted to the faid Lambertus and Adam Starnbergher; and then, along the eaft bounds of this laft-mentioned tract, north, twenty-five degrees eaft, one hundred and forty chains, to the place where this tract of land first began; containing eight thousand acres of land and the ufual allowance for highways.

And in fetting out the faid tract, or parcel, of land, our faid commiffioners have had regard to the profitable and unprofitable acres, and have taken care that the length thereof doth not extend along the banks of any river otherwife than is conformable to our faid royal inftructions, as by a certificate thereof under their hands, bearing date the eighth day of this inftant month of July, and entered on record in our fecretary's office for our faid province, may. more fully appear.

Which faid tract of land, fet out as aforefaid, according to our faid royal inftructions, we being willing to grant to the faid petitioners,

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tioners, their heirs, and affigns for ever, with the several privileges and powers herein after-mentioned:

Grant of the tract of land

KNOW YE that, of our fpecial grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, we have given, granted, ratified, and confirmed, above described, and do by these prefents for us, our heirs and fucceffors, give, grant, ratify, and confirm, unto them the faid A, B, C, D, &c. their heirs and affigns for ever, all that the tract, or parcel of land aforefaid, fet out, abutted, bounded, and defcribed in manner and form as above-mentioned, together with all and fingular the tenements, hereditaments, emoluments, and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or appertaining: and alfo all our estate, right, title, intereft, poffeffion, claim, and demand whatsoever, of, in, and to, the fame lands and premises and every part and parcel thereof; ex- Refervation of cept and always reserved out of this our prefent grant unto us, our gold and silver; heirs and fucceffors for ever *, all mines of gold and filver, and also all white or other forts of pine trees fit for mafts, of the growth of twenty-four inches diameter and upwards at twelve inches from the earth, for mafts for the royal navy of us, our heirs and fucceffors.

all mines of

and of all pine trees of a certain

fize.

To have and to hold one full and equal eighth part (the whole Habendum. into eight equal parts to be divided) of the faid tract or parcel of land, tenements, hereditaments, and premises by thefe prefents granted, ratified, and confirmed, and every part and parcel thereof, with their and every of their appurtenances (except as is herein bebefore excepted) unto each of them our grantees above-mentioned, their heirs and affigns refpectively, to their only proper and feparate ufe and behoof refpectively for ever, as tenants in common and not as joint tenants.

To be holden of us, our heirs and fucceffors, in free and com-Tenure. mon focage, as of our manor of Eaft Greenwich in our county of

It flood thus in the draft, but the council altered it as above to the very words of the king's inftructions.

* All mines of gold and filver and all royal mines whatfover, and alfo all white pine trees, and all other forts and fpecies of pine trees whatfoever fit for mafts of the diameter of twenty-four inches and upwards at twelve inches from the ground for mafts, &c.

Kent,

Quit-rent.

Kent, within our kingdom of Great Britain; yielding, rendering, and paying therefore, yearly and every year for ever, unto us, our heirs and fucceffors, at our custom-houfe in our city of New York, unto our, or their, collector or receiver-general there for the time being, on the Feast of the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary, commonly called Lady-Day, the yearly rent of two fhillings and fix pence fterling * for each and every hundred acres of the above granted lands, and fo in proportion for any leffer quantity thereof (faving and except for fuch part of the faid lands allowed for highways as above-mentioned) in lieu and stead of all other rents, fervices, dues, duties, and demands whatsoever for the hereby granted Erection of the lands and premises, or any part thereof. And we do, of our especial hereby granted grace, certain knowledge, and meer motion, create, erect, and into a township. conftitute the tract, or parcel, of land herein granted, and every part and parcel thereof, a township for ever hereafter to be, continue, and remain, and by the name of for ever hereafter

tract of land

Grant, to the inhabitants of

powers and pri

to be called and known.

And, for the better and more eafily carrying on and managing the faid town the public affairs and bufinefs of the faid township, our royal pleafhip, of all the fure is, and we do hereby for us, our heirs and fucceffors, give and vileges legally grant to the inhabitants of the faid township all the powers, authobelonging to the inhabitants of rities, privileges, and advantages heretofore given and granted to, fhip in the faid or legally enjoyed by, all, any, or either, our other townships within our faid province.

any other town

province.

officers to be

by the inhabi

township.

Establishment of And we alfo ordain and establish, that there fhall be for ever chofen annually hereafter in the faid township one fupervisor, two affeffors, one lants of the faid treasurer, two overfeers of the highways, two overfeers of the poor, one collector, and four conftables, elected and chofen out of the inDay of election. habitants of the faid township yearly and every year, on the first Tuesday in May, at the most public place in the faid township by the majority of the freeholders thereof then and there met and Place of election. affembled for that purpofe; hereby declaring that wherefoever the first election in the faid township shall be held, the future elections

The council would confine themselves to the very words of the king's inftructions.

* Of good and lawful money of Great Britain.

fhall