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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 112

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] lency do grant the prayer of the same, &c., given, &c. four several tracts, the first of which begins at the monument where the two lines intersect which are the eastwardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, and is one mile, three » Smith's Hist, of N. Y. p. 177. COUNTY or WESTCHESTER. 267 quarters of a mile, and fifty-two rods distant on a line ru-nning north eighty-four degrees east from the monument, and the end of the twenty mile line from Cortlandt's Point west to the east end of Long Pond, &c., then along south side of said pond to the easterly bounds of said surrendered lands. The second tract begins at the monument, standing at two m'les from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point. The third begins at the eighth mile monument, on the westwardly bounds of the said surrendered lands, on the line running north twelve degrees and thirty minutes east from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cort-landt's Point. The fourth tract begins at the thirty-fourth mile from the monument, at the end of the twenty miles from Cortlandt's Point, &e. Given, under our hands, at New York, this eighth day of June, in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign, A. D. 1731.^ J. Montgomerie. On the 8th of January, 1752, John Bowton of the East patent, granted a tract of land, consisting of eighty acres, to Benjamin Rockwell for the snin of £249.