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into fixteen towns, viz.

ly by Petersburgh, westerly by Pittstown and northerly by the north bounds of the county of Rensselaer, shall be and continue a town by the name of Hosick.

And that all that part of the county of Washington TON County bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state, southerly by the county of Rensselaer, westerly by the east bounds of Saratoga patent, and northerly by the river called Batten-kill, shall be and continue a town by the name of Cambridge.

Cambridge.

Eafton.

Argyle.

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Salem.

Hebron.

Granville.

Hampton.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded southerly by the county of Rensselaer, easterly by Cambridge, westerly by the bounds of the county, and northerly by Batten-kill shall be and continue a town by the name of Easton.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded southerly by Easton and Cambridge, westerly by the bounds of the county, northerly by a tract of land called Kingsbury and a tract of land called the Provincial patent, and easterly by the east bounds of a tract of land called the township of Argyle, shall be and continue a town by the name of Argyle.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state, souther ly by Cambridge, westerly by Argyle, and northerly by the north bounds of a tract of land called Tumer's patent and a line running from the northeast corner thereof east to the east bounds of the county of Washington, shall be and continue a town by the name of Salem.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state, southerly by Salem aforesaid, westerly by Argyle and the said tract of land called the Provincial patent, and northerly by an east and west line run from the southeast corner of a tract of land formerly granted to Lieutenant Byrn, shall be and continue a town by the name of Hebron.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state, southerly by Hebron aforesaid, westerly by the said tract called the Provincial patent, and a tract of land called the Artillery patent, and northerly by a tract of land heretofore called Skeensborough and a line running east from the southeast corner thereof to the east bounds of this state, shall be and continue a town by the name of Granville.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded easterly by the east bounds of this state, southerly by Granville aforesaid, westerly by said tract of land heretofore called Skeensborough and a line running from the northeast corner thereof northeast to the north bounds of this state, and northerly by the north bounds of this state, shall be and continue a town by the name of Hamp

ton.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Whitehall. bounded easterly by Hampton, southerly by the south bounds of the tract of land heretofore called Skeensbo rough, westerly by the west bounds of the said tract and the waters of South-bay, and northerly by the north bounds of this state, shall be and continue a town by the name of Whitehall.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Kingsbury, bounded easterly by the said tract of land called the Provincial patent, southerly by Argyle and Hudson's river, westerly by the west bounds of a tract of land called Kingsbury, and northerly by the herth bounds of the said tract of land called Kingsbury, shall be and continue a town by the name of Kingsbury

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Weftfields bounded southerly by Kingsbury and the Provincial patent, easterly by Granville, Whitehall and the state of Vermont, northerly by Whitehall and the north bounds of the said county of Washington, and westerly by LakeGeorge and a line beginning at the northwest corner of the town of Kingsbury and running in the direction of Kingsbury west bounds till fit strikes the waters of LakeGeorge, shall be and continue a town by the name of Westfield.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Hartford. commonly called and known by the name of the Provincial patent lying easterly of the town of Kingsbury, shall be and continue a town by the name of Hartford.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Queensbury, bounded easterly by Westfield and Kingsbury, and separated from Westfield by a line beginning at the northwest corner of the town of Kingsbury, and running in the direction of Kingsbury west bounds till it strikes the waters of Lake-George, westerly by Fairfield, northerly by LakeGeorge and a line running from the mouth of M'Auley's creek near the south end of said lake direct to the northeast corner of the town of Fairfield, and southerly by the bounds of the county, shall be and continue a town by the name of Queensbury.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Fairfield. beginning at the southwest corner of the lands granted by the ancient letters patent of the town of Queensbury, and running from thence north along the west line of the lands granted by the said letters patent, and continu ing a north line until it intersects a west line from FortGeorge at the south end of Lake-George, thence west on the last mentioned line to the bounds of the county in the river Hudson, thence down the same following the bounds of the county to the place of beginning, shall be and con. tinue a town by the name of Fairfield.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington Bolton.

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Chefter.

Thurman.

ESSEX county into four towns, viz.

beginning at the mouth of M'Auley's creek, thence up the said creek until it shall have crossed the road that leads from Lake-George to Scaroon-river five rods from the centre of the said road, thence westerly following the course of the said road at the distance of five rods from the centre two miles from the place of beginning, then crossing the road at right angles ten rods from the last mentioned corner, thence following the course of the said road at the distance of five rods from the centre to Scaroon-river, thence northerly on the east bank of Scaroon-river and lake to the south line of Essex county, thence east on the south line of Essex county to the east side of Lake-George, thence southerly on the east bank of Lake-George to the place of beginning, shall be and continue a town by the name of Bolton.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington beginning on the east bank of Hudson's river where the south line of Essex county crosses the said river, thence due east on the south line of Essex county to the east side of Scaroon-lake to the west line of the town of Bolton, thence southerly on the west line of the said town of Bolton to the north corner of what was formerly called Hyde township, thence south fifty mine degrees west to the river Hudson, thence northerly on the east bank of the said river to the place of beginning, shall be and continue a town by the name of Chester.

And that all that part of the said county of Washington bounded southerly by Queensbury, Fairfield and the south bounds of the county, westerly by the west bounds of the county, northerly by the bounds of the county and by Chester and Bolton, shall be and continue a town by the name of Thurman.

And that all that part of the county of Essex bounded southerly by the south bounds of the said county of EsCrownpoint. sex, westerly by the west bounds of the said county, northerly by a line beginning at the northeast corner of a tract of land granted to Major Small, and continued east to the east bounds of this state, and continued west along the north line of the said patent and in the same direction to the west bounds of the county, and easterly by the east bounds of this state, shall be and continue a town by the name of Crownpoint.

Flizabeth-
Town.

Willborough.

And that all that part of the said county of Essex bounded southerly by Crownpoint, west by the west bounds of the county, northerly by the south line of Judd's patent continued easterly to the east bounds of this state, and westerly till it intersects the west bounds of the county aforesaid, and easterly by the east bounds of this state, shall be and continue a town by the name of ElizabethTown.

And that all that part of the said county of Essex

on the said map, she and continue town by the name of Manlius.

And that all that part of the said county of Onondaga Lyfander. comprehending the townships of Lysander, Hannibal and

Cicero as distinguished on the said map, shall be and continue a town by the name of Lysander.

And that all that part of the said county of Onondaga Camillus. comprehending the township of Camillus as distinguished

on the said map, shall be and continue a town by the name of Camillus.

And that all that part of the said county of Onondaga Marcellus, comprehending the township of Marcellus as distinguish

ed on the said map, shall be and continue a town by the name of Marcellus.

viz.

And that all that part of the county of Cayuga com- CAYUGA prehending the townships of Ulysses and Dryden as dis- county into tinguished on a map of the military tract filed in the secretary's office by the surveyor-general of this state and Ulyffes. extending to the middle of the Cayuga-lake, shall be and continue a town by the name of Ulysses.

And that all that part of the said county of Cayuga Milton comprehending the townships of Milton and Locke as distinguished on the said map extending to the middle of Cayuga-lake, shall be and continue a town by the name of Milton.

And that all that part of the said county of Cayuga Sempronius. comprehending all that part of the township of Scipio as distinguished on the said map lying east of the Owascolake, together with the township of Sempronius as also distinguished on the said map, shall be and continue a town by the name of Sempronius.

And that all that part of the said county of Cayuga Scipio, comprehending the township of Scipio as distinguished on the said map and extending to the middle of Cayugalake, excepting such part thereof as lies east of the Owasco-lake, and comprehending that part of the lands reserved to the Cayuga nation of Indians lying on the east side of the middle of the Cayuga-lake, south of a west line drawn from the southwesterly corner of the township of Aurelius in the east bounds of the said reservation to the middle of said Cayuga-lake, shall be and continue a town by the name of Scipio.

And that all that part of the said county of Cayuga Aurelius, comprehending the townships of Cato, Brutus and Aurelius as distinguished on the said map, together with that part of the lands reserved to the Cayuga nation of Indians as aforesaid lying on the east side of the middle of the Cayuga-lake and not included in the town of Scipio, shall be and continue a town by the name of Aurelius.

And that all that part of the said county of Cayuga ovia, comprehending the townships of Ovid and Hector as

Lisbon.

SARATOGA County into twelve towns

viz.

Halfmoon.

Stillwater.

Saratoga.

Greenfield.

Northumberland.

And that all the remaining part of the said county of Clinton, shall be annexed to and form part of the town of Lisbon.

And that all that part of the county of Saratoga bounded northerly by Ballstown, and also by Anthony's kill and a line from that part of the said kill where it comes out of the Round-lake to the southeast corner of Ballstown, easterly by the east bounds of the county, southerly by the middle of the Mohawk-river and its most northerly sprout, westerly by the west bounds of the county and a line running from the south end of the Long-lake south fifty-three degrees west along the established bounds of Ballstown to the bounds of Albany county, shall be and continue a town by the name of Halfmoon.

And that all that part of the said county of Saratoga bounded southerly by Halfmoon, easterly by the east bounds of the county, northerly by the north bounds of lot number seventeen in Saratoga patent continued in the same direction west to the town of Milton, and westerly by Ballstown and Milton, shall be and continue a town by the name of Stillwater.

And that all that part of the said county of Saratoga bounded northerly by Northumberland and Greenfield, easterly by the county of Washington, southerly by Stillwater, and westerly by a north line continued from the northeast corner of Ballstown to the town of Greenfield, shall be and continue a town by the name of Saratoga.

And that all that part of the said county of Saratoga, beginning at the southeast corner of lot number seven in the seventeenth allotment of the patent of Kayaderosseras, thence running north along the east bounds thereof to the southerly bounds of the twenty-second allotment of the said patent, thence northeasterly along the same to the southwest corner of the twenty-third allotment of the said patent, thence northerly along the west bounds thereof to the southwest corner of the twenty-fifth allotment of the said patent, from thence north to Hudson's river, thence along the west bounds of the county of Washington to the north bounds of the said county of Saratoga, thence west to the northeast corner of the town of Providence in the said county of Saratoga, thence south on the east line of the same to the north bounds of the sixteenth allotment of the patent aforesaid, and from thence easterly along the same to the place of beginning, shall be and continue a town by the name of Greenfield.†

And that all that part of the said county of Saratoga beginning on Hudson's river at the northeast corner of the tenth general allotment of the patent of Kayaderosseras, from thence along the north bounds thereof and the north bounds of the ninth and sixteenth allotments of the

+Part of this town is erected into a new town by the name of Hadley.-See the laft fection of this act, and the following act. E.