I Conclude therefore, that supposing the above words in the Grant may be Taken to two Intents as I have shewn above, that as the Intention or Construction of those words Contended for by me is most Beneficial for the Crown, as Loss of the Lands belonging to the Crown will pass by such Construction ; I conceive such construction ought to take place ; and not the Construction'eontended for by the Government of Massachusetts bay ; and then the Eastern bounds of the Colony of Connecticut will be the Western Bounds of that Government, and of course all Lands Entred upon by them westward of those Bounds must be an Intrusion, and what they had no right todo: Besides this, it appears by the Grant to the Duke of York first made in the year 1663 and by the Regrant or confirmation thereof in the year 1674, After the Dutch Conquest in 1673 that King Charles the Second Granted to the said Duke his heirs and assigns. " All that Island or Islands "commonly known by the name of mattowacks or Long Island 'Scituate and being towards the west of Cape Cod and the Nar- "row Higgaasetts butting upon the Main Land Between the "Two Rivers there called & known by the several names of "Connecticut and Hudsons river together also with the said "River called Hudsons river and all the Lands from the west 'side of Connecticut River to the East side of Delaware Bay. As by the record of the said Grants in the Secretarys office of this province more fully appears by which Grant I conceive the Duke of York in the said year 1674 became seized of Hudson's river even to the most Northermost Extent thereof (the whole River being Expressly Granted to him) and of all the Lands westward of Connecticut River &e in ffee.