a North Boundary beyond

form the Massachusetts Bay into a Province, and to invest the same with Powers as a Body _.

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Line Estabtween thati rrovince and

It became necessary therefore for the Massachusetts Bay after they were incorporated, to

obtain a Convevance of the Lands granted to the Corporation to Roswell &c. and Associ™w« * ° " ates That tne y obtained such Conveyance has not been pretended. If they had, the '

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Crown either became reseized of the Lands of the Corporation by the Judgment in 1684 which Vacated the Letters Patent of 1628 9 or the Property reverted to the Grantees of the

Council of Plymouth.

Had the Crown been reseized it might have passed the same Lands to the Massachusetts ProBut instead of so extensive and unreasonable a Grant of Three Thousand Miles in length they obtained, it is true, by that Charter a great addition of Territory Eastward, but were confined in their Western limits which extend " towards the South Sea as far as the Colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut and the Narragansett Country.''' This Description in strict Construction of Law will carry the Massachusetts Bay West no further than the Eastern Bounds of Connecticut, and by the most liberal interpretation do not extend their Boundary beyond the West Line of Connecticut, then and for some years before determined by Agreement between that Colony and New York to be upwards of Twenty Miles East of Hudson's River. On the other hand admitting the Massachusetts Bay after their charter of 1628|9, and before it was vacated in 1684, did not obtain a Conveyance of the Lands granted to Roswell kc. and Associates, the Judgment which vacated that charter did not affect the Lands but left the Title in Roswell &c. and Associates, and the Crown could not by the Charter of 1691 grant them to the Massachusetts Colony So that the Title, if any exists, must at this day be vested in the heirs or assigns of Roswell &c. and Associates in their private Right, and not in the Government of the Massachusetts Bay, vince by the present Charter of 1691.