War breaking out between England and Holland, this agreement or treaty was never ratified by the home governments.

King Charles II., on the 23d of April, 1662, granted to the colony of Connecticut the following boundary :

" All that part of our dominion in .\merica bounded by Narraganset liay, conunonly called Xarngousit l!)iy, where the said river lalleth into the sea, and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation, and on the south by the sea ; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony, running from ea^t to west ; that is ti> say, from the said Narragansett Bay on the east to the south eea on the west part ; with the islands thereto ac^oining, etc.^'

That most comprehensive grant not only covei'ed the disputed territory, but took in the greater part of the Dutch claim on the Hudson. King Charles granted to his brother, the Duke of York and Albany, on the 24th of ^larch, 16()4, all of New Netherland from the Delaware to Cape Cod. This grant embraced Connecticut east of the Connecticut River -- with some variations of the boundaries -- and also the whole of Long Island, " together with all the river called Hudson River, and the lands from the west side of Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay."

By the charter and patent issued within less than two years of each other, nearly all of New York was

THE DIFFERENT BOUNOAKY LINES BETWEEN CON- NECTICUT AND NEW YORK.^