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

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It is uncertain to this Day to what

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Extent the Five Nations carried their claim to the

Westward & Northward but there is no doubt it went to the North beyond the 45 Degree of Latitude and Westward to Lake Huron, their Beaver Hunting Country being bounded to the West by that Lake, which Country the Five Nations by Treaty with the Governor of this Province at Albany in 1701 surrendered to the Crown to be protected and defended for them Mitchel in his Map extends their claim much further Westward and he is supported in this opinion by Maps and other Authorities

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very Ancient and Respectable. The above Treaty of 1701 is to be found among the Records of Indian Transactions but it

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recited and the Surrender made thereby confirmed in a Deed dated the 14 September 1726 by which the Seneca, Cayouga and Onondaga Nations also surrender^ their Habitations to King George the th