^.^ ^^ ^ 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

Two Thousand, tho' they probably exceed that number. The Massachusetts Bay long acquiesced in the Royal Decree of 1740, the Line established by that Decision hath actually been run and marked from the south West Corner of New Hampshire Westward, to within about Twenty miles East of Hudson's River, and the Inhabitants of New York and the Massachusetts Bay have deemed that Line to be the utmost Extent of the Massachusetts North Boundary, whatever might have been determined as to their Western Limits.

And that this was the

sense of the General Court of that Province soon after the Treaty of 1767, for settling the Boundary

of the Two Provinces, appears clearly by their Resolution of the 23<* January 1768 in these Words " Resolved that this Court will concede to and confirm the last proposal made by their Commissioners on the part of New

York at their late Conference in the Words of the Report of the Lords of Trade and Plantations in May 1757, That a Streight Line be drawn Northerly from a point on the