Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
on Tuesday the first of the Present Month of November wherein we have declared our expectation of the continuance of His Majesty's favour & our desire that our ancient Engagements be observed & our affairs attended to by the officer who has the management thereof enabling him to discharge all these matters properly for our Interest. That the Lands occupied by the Mohocks around their villages as well as by any other Nation affected by this our cession may effecutually remain to them & to their Posterity & that any engagements regarding property which they may now be under may be prosecuted & our present Grants deemed Valid on our parts with the several other humble requests
contained in our said speech And Whereas at the settling of the said Line it appeared that the Line
BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE WHITES AND INDIANS.
or to the Southward described by His Majesty's order was not extended to the Northward of Oswegy Northward on a supposition the the Line to continued agreed to & have We river Kanhawa of Great concerning its course at determination any come to not having our of reason by that it was omitted Line to the much as the in as five and sixty hundred & the Congress held in one thousand seven very Towns & Northward became the most necessary of any for preventing encroachments at our ^Residences
We have given the line more favorably to Pensylvania for the reasons & considerations
mentioned in the Treaty, we have likewise continued