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

this Province.

those Gentlemen intimated that they still left open their Western Claim to the South Sea.

Hence two very important Disputes may still arise of great Consequence to the Interests of the Crown, as well as the property of His Majesty's subjects of this Colony. The Massachusetts Northern Claim beyond the Line settled between that Province and New Hampextends north from that Line about Fifty miles, and from thence Westward to within observations shire, chuseu^Nor."

them ciaim.

Twenty Miles East of Hudson's River, and after passing this Province, is commensurate

^.^ ^^ ^ es t ern ci a m to the South Sea-- The immediate object of their Northern Claim j

is a Country between Connecticut & Hudson's Rivers about Fifty Miles in length and about Forty in

breadth and includes not only the greater part of the County of Cumberland, but a large District of the Counties of Albany and Charlotte.

--The Lands there

in question are wholly appropriated under

Grants of this Province [and?] of New Hampshire, and the Families settled thereon are not less than