The Second source of the Title of this Government is grounded on the Claim of the

Andasgrounby Five Nations who are in the Treaty J France to be subject J of Utrecht acknowledged °

claim of the Five Nations of Indians, to

Great Britain.

Soon after the English conquered this Country from the Dutch, pursuing their System of Policy, they entered into a strict Alliance with the Natives who by Treaties with this Colony, subjected themselves to the Crown of England, and their Lands to its protection, and

treated as Subjects,

from this Period were always

and their Country considered by this Government as part of the Province of

New York, which probably gave rise to the extended Jurisdiction of the Colony beyond the Duke's Grants, signified by the Words "The Territories depending thereon" which are found in all the Nor has the Crown except by the Confirmation of the

Commissions of the Crown to its Governors.

Agreement fixing the Boundary of Connecticut at about Twenty miles East of Hudson's River at any Time contracted the jurisdiction of the Colony Westward of Connecticut River & Southward of the Latitude 45 the Proclamation of His present Majesty of the 7 lh of October 1763, leaving the jurisdiction Southward of that Latitude as it stood before, tho' it prohibits for the present the further

Extention of the Grants and Settlements into the Country thereby reserved to the Indians, to avoid Umbrage to that People who complained they were too much straitned in their hunting