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.^

granted to Connecticut, and most of Connecticut given to New Y^ork. On the 18th of September, 1664, Colonel Richard Nicolls, the representative of the Duke of York, received the surrender of the city of New Amsterdam, and the whole of the New Netherlands accepted the situation of an English colony by the 12th of October following

Notwithstanding the charter of Connecticut was older than the patent to the Duke of York, no little alarm was taken when it was known that their boundarie.s had been disregarded by the King in his ])atent to his brother. Delegates were dispatched by the authorities of Connecticut to the Governor of New

'This map is copied by permission from Rev. Charles W. Buird's " History of Rye," p. 105. -

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

York for the purpose of cougratulation and settlement of the boundary line. These delegates and the commissioners appointed by the Governor of New York met on the 28th of October, 1664, and came to the understanding that the boundary limit between the two claimants should be fixed at a distance of twenty miles east of the Hudson River, and ninning parallel with that river northward from Long Island Sound. This agreement was not signed, and a few weeks later it was ordered and declared, --