The reason of winch neglect, I suppose to be same words with a few that are Recorded at length in the beg'rTv'risr, for so much is recorded as wherein they can differ, when the Habendum and Reddendum is the same viz The Motives to the Grant, the bounds to the thing granted, and the Grantees name and designation. that they were all in the

Before I proceed further, it will be likewise necessary to observe that the greatest part Of Lc rig Island, Viz all that part which lies opposite to Connecticut, was settled from Connecticut, and claimed

by the Inhabitants under the Connecticut Title, to which in pursuance of the Proclamation above mentioned some regard is had. For the first, or at least the principle Grants of Lands upon this Island, are

made in Townships according to the custom of Connecticut, & to the Freeholders and

Inhabitants which supposess a previous Title

some I know, think that these Grants of Townships Government of these parts of the Country, as I remember it is expressly mentioned in the Patents for the Townships of Southampton and Southold and perhaps it is so in others likewise, and the Governours who granted these Town Patents continued to grant the Soil, within the limits of these Townships, as some of the succeeding Governours did likewise, However most of all the Lands within these Townships are held by Grants from Trustees, or Common Council of these Towns upon the General Town rights only. If these Town are not Grants of the Soil, but only for the Good