Gov 18 under the Duke of York, took these extraordinary methods to secure their Masters Authority, and interest, they made some Grants of Large Tracts of Land, upon Notwithstanding that the

trifling Quitrents but as these are very few, in Comparison of what happened afterwards what observations I have to make on this head will come in more properly in another place. Sir Edmond Andross the third English Gov r of New York, as he seems to have had the interest of

his Master and of the People he Governed as

much at heart as any Gov that has at any time been r

set over this Province so he was very carefull in Granting of Lands :

All Lands to be Granted were

Surveyed before the Grant and bounded in the Grant according to the Survey.

The Quitrents were

likewise fixed by the Grant, generally at the rate of one Bushel each hundred acres tho' some times at a higher rate and sometimes the rent was less, probably as the value of the land was represented.

And as these grants are the most profitable to the Lords of the soil, so are they to the Tenant, they being free of all those disputes about their Boundaries which have in a great measure rendered some others useless to the grantees.

S r Edward has left but a few exceptions to be made to this general

account given of his care of his Masters Interest.

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Dungan who succeeded him, followed his