That is what I was trying to say, that the whole of the Newtown patent was the northern part of Queens, from Newtown Creek up to Long Island Sound and I have read that that was about 15,000 acres. Newtown, the village, is what is now called Elmhurst. To the south was the Dutch village of Brooklyn (Breukelin). With the Newtown patent, it was a group of English who purchased the land as shareholders, then parcelled it out amongst themselves as town land, upland, and salt marsh or meadows, so their holdings might have been far apart and they then had to buy and sell to come up with something more convenient. Just want to say thank you to Chris for posting this information. We have found it very interesting. Barbara