Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I
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
And if the Agreement lately Line between the two Provinces of New Hampshire and New York concluded at Hartford should finally be ratified by the Crown, the Eastern Limits of this Colony :
where it borders on the Massachusetts Province, will extend about twenty miles only East from Hudson's River. "Without any view to the more Westerly claim of the Five Nations, supposing the Colony
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within its Limits or Jurisdiction the Country those Nations Surrendered to the CO mprize * •>
"Crown by the Description of the Beaver Hunting Country as before mentioned
remiercdw'" daries of the Crown by th.s I'rovmco iu 1701.
-- The Bounthe Province of New York are as follows.
On the South
The Atlantic Ocean, including Long Island, Staten Island and others of less note.
On the West The Banks of Hudson's River from Sandy Hook, on the Ocean, to the 41 Degree of Latitude, thence the Line established between New York and New Jersey to Delaware River Thence the River