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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. 310 words

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.

On the East The Western Banks of the River Connecticut from the last mentioned Station to the South-west corner of the Province of New Hampshire, in the North boundary Line of the Ma ssachusetts bay ; and from thence along that Line, (if continued) and the Western limits of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and the Colony of Connecticut.

In the Appendix N° 4, is a Map of the Province of New York according to the preceding Description of its Boundaries.

The Boundary of the Province of New York (in respect to the other Governments) being established in every part except where it borders to the East on the Massachusetts Bay, it was conceived o.sputes that

may still arise with Maraathe Crown,/ would extinguish with that Province when ratified by every the late agreement o ° « * •

Controversy respecting the Limits of New York, the North Boundary Line of the Massa-

"StVof chusetts having in the year 1740 been ascertained by a Royal Decree of the King in Privy Council in the Contest between that Province & New Hampshire. But the Massachusets Commissaries at the late Meeting at Hartford in 1773 declared that they had no authority to settle their North Boundary which they considered as undetermined with respect to New York, and one of ih