patent, under the sign manual, to Rutgers, reciting the Colonial act, prohibiting grants by governors for a longer time than their continuing in office, and making the grant himself.

By Dongan's charter of 16S6, section 3, all the vacant, unpatented, and unappropriated lands lying and being within the city of New York, with all rivulets, coves, water courses, and ponds in the city and island, were granted to the corporation. By the 37th section of Montgomery's charter, this grant was renewed in similar terms, with the exception of Fort George, the Governor's Garden, and the land called the King's Farm, with the swamp next the same.

Why, under Dongan's charter, this swamp land did not pass to the Corporation, is not clear. Under Montgomery's, it possibly may be comprised in the terms the swamp next the King's Farm, although how this could extend to the swamp adjoining Fresh Water is not very intelligible.

However, the corporation appear to have recognized the title; for, by a grant to Anthony Rutgers, of the 15th of September, 1739, they recite the King's patent to him, and his expenses in draining, and give him a lot on the Hudson River. The Rutgers heirs were before stated, and the partition deeds of 1748 and 1751.

Deed 24th of August, 1790, from Anthony Barclay and executors of Mary Barclay, to John Jay. Beginning on the east side of Ann street, extending along the pond or marsh, and along Fresh Water, bounded by the same, and by land of Nicholas Bayard, and part of land mortgaged to Mary Barclay. (Lib. 46, p. 351.)

Deed 27th June, 1792, by executors of Mary Barclay to Stockholm and Brooks, part of lands mortgaged by Anthony Barclay to Mary Barclay. (Lib. 43, p. 139.)

Deed 27th June, 1792, from executors of Anthony Rutgers to Boyd. Recites that the premises are part of the swamp lands contained in the above patents. (Lib. 47, p. 429.)

B. See Mem. on Diagram No. 4.

C. N. Bayard. See Mem. on Diagram No. 11 and 12. D. I have been unable to find how Jan Celes, called Old Jans, got his title, or the extent of his possession. We see that his land constituted a boundary in the Bogardus transport of 1659, in Santome's of 1667, and in the deed from Dirck Dey to Trinity Church, of 1758. I have no doubt this description is from an old deed. Certainly Trinity Church owned the ground at that time. doubted that Dirck Seckers (whom Dirck Dey represented) got his title from Old Jans, and I have no doubt that the parcel granted to Trinity Church in 1758 lies on the parcel marked D. 2 on this diagram.

Diagram No. 6.

It can scarcely be

1701. Nov. 13. Bastian Elliss, of the Bowery, in the county of New York, husbandman, to John Hendrickse Brievort, of the Bowery aforesaid. All that ffarm or bowery, situate, lying and being in the Bowery, within the county of New York aforesaid, bounded on the east by the King's highway leading from the city of New York to the town of Harlaem, north to the land now in the possession of Ryne, the brickmaker, to the west by the land of Gerrett Dowe, and to the south by the land of John Clapp, and doth contain in quantity, as by four severall patents, the one granted from Richard Nicolls, Governor, to Manuell Sanders, upon