This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1849. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... in the power of attorney of the first Earl of Stirling to Farrett, before referred to. In the latter document it is recited that the Earl of Stirling had, " by and with the consent, direction, appointment and command of his most sacred Majesty, the King, obtained a patent or grant from the corporation of New England, under their common sen] bearing date the two-and twentieth day of April in the eleventh year of his said Majesty Charles of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, King, or Anno Domini 1636, * of a certain island called Long Island with all and every the islands (hereunto adjacent, lying, and being situate, or bounded between the degrees of forty and forty-one of the northerly latitude or thereabouts." It is added in the petition of Henry the grandson, -- " with power of judicature, saving to that Council the Oyer and Terminer of Appeals, to be held of that Councti per gladium comitatus, and yielding the fifth part of all ore of gold and silver." The existence of this grant is established beyond all question by the fact that it was, with its relinquishment to the Duke of York, recognised in the patent of Governor Nicholl to Constant and Nathaniel Sylvester for Shelter Island, May 31,1666. (Wood's Long Inland, p. 6, note.) The release to the Duke of York is also mentioned, though upon what authority it is not stated, in Mass. Hist. Coll. vol. Ill, 2d Series, p. 85. Major General William Alexander of our revolution, generally known as Lord Stirling, in a letter to one of his agents at the time of his claiming the Earldom and American estntes of Stirling, says, that Henry the third Earl conveyed this title, about the year 1662 to the Duke of York, for an annuity of three hundred pounds, which was never paid. (See his life by Mr. Duer, p. 37.) As the...