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

a Copy whereof is inserted in the article of the Appendix, Number 1. Oswe <T o on the South side of Lake Ontario was first established by this Colony about 1724, a Garfirst

rison of the King's Troops supported there at the Expence of this Government, and the Jurisdiction of New York actually exercised Westward to Oswego and its Vicinity until the Commencement of Hostilities in the late war.

His Majestys Order of the 20 July 1764 confirming the Ancient Limits as granted the Duke declares " The Western Banks of the River Connecticut from where it enters the Province of the " Massachusetts Bay as far North as the Forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude," to be the Boundary