was not disputed on the part of the Crown of
No line of jurisdiction having ever been settled between this Province & Quebec
that which was fixed by General Carleton k myself and approved of by His Majesty, each of the
Provinces have endeavored to extend their claims as far as they possibly could.
River St. Lawrence, and the French to the Southward of Lake George
:
The English to the The consequence of which
has been that the lands on both sides of Lake Champlain have been granted to the English & French
by their respective Governors, as will appear by the Map which I had the honour of transmitting to England k mentioned in my letter No, 6, to the Earl of Shelburne dated 22 d of February 1767, k in
my letter to the Lords of Trade dated 4
t!l
April 1767.
Your Lordship will see by these different
claims what the difficulties are which we labour under at present, for [there is] no particular Boundary Line fairly drawn between the Provinces, the English claim supported by that which was made before them by the Dutch extended as far as the forty fifth Degree of Latitude.
This Line was supposed by the French to be more to the Southward than we found it on observation, k several of their grants in those parts are covered by those since Soldiers under His Majesty's Proclamation.
made by M r Colden to the reduced officers and .
This will of course open such a scene of litigation, as I