Warren & Washington Counties in this State, and

the West half of the State of Vermont ; Cumberland & Gloucester lay on the West bank of the Connecticut river and extended from Canada to the Massachusetts boundary

;

the South line of the towns of Tunbridge, Strafford and Thetford being

Westward they ran to the East bounds of Charlotte. Cumberland was erected in 1766 Gloucester in 1770, and Charlotte was taken from Albany in 1772, at the same time as Tryon.

the division between the two.

4 For the Census table see ante p. 474.

;

;

PROVINCE OF NEW-YORK.

The proportion of the cultivated to the uncultivated parts of the Province (the Limits as stated in No. 2) is as one to four

;

or one fifth only improved.

With respect to the Titles under which the Inhabitants hold their possessions Before the Province Tines under was granted on 12 March 1663|4 by King Charles the Second to his brother James Duke of are held. York, the Dutch West India Company had seized it, made settlements and Issued many Grants of Land. In August 1664 the Country was surrendered by the Dutch to the English, and by the 3 U Article of the Terms of Capitulation it was stipulated " That all People shall continue free ;

'

Denizens and shall enjoy their Lands, Houses, mid goods, wheresoever they are within this Country

Some lands of the Province are held under the old Dutch

and dispose of them as they please."