[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Gloucester in 1770, and Charlotte was taken from Albany in 1772, at the same time as Tryon. 4 For the Census table see ante p. 474. PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK. 509 The proportion of the cultivated to the uncultivated parts of the Province (the Limits as stated in No. 2) is as one to four; or one fifth only improved. With respect to the Titles under which the Inhabitants hold their possessions; Before the Province Tines under was granted on 12 March 1663|4 by King Charles the Second to his brother James Duke of are held. R ' York, the Dutch West India Company had seized it, made settlements and Issued many Grants of Land. In August 1664 the Country was surrendered by the Dutch to the English, and by the 3U Article of the Terms of Capitulation it was stipulated " That all People shall continue free Denizens and shall enjoy their Lands, Houses, mid goods, wheresoever they are within this Country and dispose of them as they please." Some lands of the Province are held under the old Dutch Grants without any confirmation of their Titles under the crown of England, but the ancient Records are replete with confirmatory Grants, which the Dutch Inhabitants were probably the more solicitous to obtain from an Apprehension that the Dutch conquest of the Province in 1673, might render their Titles under the former articles of Capitulation precarious; tho' the Country was finally restored to the English by the Treaty signed at Westminster the 9th Feb>' 1671.