Thank you Mike and Rose for clearing that up. I just found a site through google about a Col Lewis van Woert and it listed some early persons on the Cambridge patent, one of whom is also listed in the grantees section of one of the Abraham Lansingh deeds I was looking at. A Goldsbrow Banyer. In the below clip from that Van Woert site I found there is a Goldsboro Bangor listed as original settler on the cambridge patent. Must be the same guy. Recorded 25 May 1763. Noted:" 1/2 part of land as laid down for highways; also (illegible fraction) of land purchased by Goldsbrow Banyer" I guess this is the previous owner of the lots I am looking at. Thanks again, Mike "Cambridge embraces a part of the Hoosick Patent, <http://millennium.fortunecity.com/tulip/561/hoosac.html>which was granted on both sides of that stream in 1688, the principal portion being in Rensselaer county. About four thousand acres are included in Cambridge. The remainder of the town was a part of the Cambridge patent, granted in 1761 to Isaac Sawyer, Edmund Wells, Jacob Lansing, Wm. Smith, Alexander Colden, Goldsboro Bangor, and others, on condition that immediate settlements be made. The tract included thirty-one thousands five hundred acres, north of the Hoosick patent and extending up the valley, which took the name of the patent. "