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Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I

O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849. 263 words

"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

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Delaware to the North East Corner of Pensylvania or the Beginning of the Latitude 43, which in MitchePs Map is by mistake carried thro' the whole of that degree Thence the North Boundary

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Line of Pensylvania to the Northwest Corner of that Province, and continuing the same Line to a point in Lake Erie which bears due South from the East Bank of the Streights of D'Etroit and of

Lake Huron to the Forty Fifth Degree of Northern Latitude. [Vol. 1.

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On the North

A Line from a point on the East bank of Lake Huron in the Latitude of R rty Five East to the Kiver St Lawrence, or the South Boundary Line of Quebec; Thence along the South Boundary Line of that Province across the River St Lawrence to the Monument on the East Bank of Lake Champlain fixed: there in the 45 Degree of Northern Latitude;

Thence East along the Line already run and

marked to the Monument or Station fixed on the West Bank of the River Connecticut in the same Latitude.