Government of Connecticutt ; tis true, that the Government of Massachusetts bay, have under pretence that this Government ought to be Confined to the Same bounds, Intruded upon and taken possession of the Lands Eastward of that distance from Hudsons river ; but that they have So done, without pretence of right, I think will manifestly appear by Considering the words of their Charter which as they aave Printed it in their own law book are These viz :

- "ANl that part of New England in America lying & Extending " from the Great' River Commonly called Monomack alias Meri- "mack on the North part and from three miles northward of the "Said River to the Atlantick or western Sea or Oceon on the "' South part And all the Lands and hereditaments whatsoever "lying within the Limitts aforesaid and Extending as far as the " Qutermost points or Promontaries of land called Cape Cod and " Cape Malabar north and south and in Latitude Breadth and in "length and Longitude of and within all the Breadth & Compass " aforesaid throughout the main Land there from the said Atlan- " tick or western Sea and Ocean on the East part towards the " South Sea, or westward as far as our Colonies of Rhode Island, " Connecticut, and the Narragansett Country &c.

These words seem to me very Plainly to Express that the bounds of that Government is to extend from the western ocean on the East to the Eastern bounds of the Colony of Connecticut on the west and no further. And altho that Goverment have Endeayoured to construe the words vizt Westward as far as our Colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut and the Naragansetts Country ; To intend and mean that the bounds of that Government was to run westward as far as the Western bounds of the Colony of Connecticut.