Given at Whitehall July the 34 in the 15th Year of His Majesty's Reign. Attest .

THEODORE ATKINSON Sec'ry. Province of New Hampste

Portsmt Nov? 17, 1749.

In Council New York, 3 April 1750. Ordered that his Excellency do acquaint Governor Wentworth That this Province is bounded Eastward by Connecticut River The letters Patent from King Charles the 24 to the Duke of York Expressly granting all the Lands from the West side of Conneoticut River to the East side of Delaware bay.

GOV. WENTWORTH TO GOV. CLINTON.

Portsmouth, April 25 1750.

Sir

J have the Honour of your Excellency's letter of the 9th Inst. before me, in which you are pleased to give me, the opinion of His Majesty's Council of your Government, that Connecticut River is the Eastern boundary of New-York Government, which would have been entirely Satisfactory to me, on the Subject of my Letter, had not the two Charter Governments of Connecticut, & the Massachusetts Bay, extended their bounds many miles to the Westward of Said River; and it being the opinion of Majesty's Council of this Government, whose Advice I am to take on these Occasions, that New Hampshire had an equal right to claim the Same extent of Western boundary's with those Charter Governments, I had in consequence of their Advice, before your Letter came to my hands, granted one Township due North of the Massachusetts-Line, of the Contents of Six Miles Square, and

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by measurement twenty-four miles, east of the City of Albany, presuming that this Government was bounded by the Same North and South line with Connecticut and the Massachusets Bay, before it met with his Majesty's other Governments. '