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

Southern Line of the Massachusetts Bay Twenty Miles due East from Hudson's River, to another point Twenty Miles due East from the said River, on the Line which divides the Province of the Massachusetts Bay from

New Hampshire, be the Eastern Boundary of New York."

GOV. TRYON S REPORT ON THE PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

Nor can any Line more favorable to the Massachusetts Colony be hereafter established, without subverting the Principles, and calling in question the Justice of the Eoyal Decree pronounced in 1740 after full hearing of the merits of the Massachusetts claim on the appeal of both parties to the Kingin Privy Council ;

and winch could it now be effected, must not only prove highly injurious to the

Crown in respect to the right of Soil, its Quit Rents & Escheats, but be productive of the greatest disorder & confusion in that Country.

The Province of Massachusetts Bay ground their claim Westward to the South Sea on the Deed dated Remarks on 1 th March 162718 from the Council of Plimouth to Sir Henry Roswell &c. and their assolhe claim of