That the line lately run by the Government of New Hampshires to Hudson's River as their Southern boundary comes (as Iam informed) within 8 or 10 miles of the City of Albany. That so far as I can learn Albany is a place more considerable in the numbers of its inhabitants & for trade (having a communication by water with the Sea for vessels of Burthen) than any toun in New Hampshire and that the parts of the country lying between Connecticut river & Hudsons river are nearer to Albany than to any Port or place of trade in New Hampshire.

2. In time of war incursions on this Province by the French & French Indians have been generally made through that part of the country between Connecticut river & Hudson's river. For

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both these reasons it must be more for the benefite & security of the inhabitants of that part of the Country between these two rivers as well as for the security of the other parts of the Province of New York that the country between the said rivers continue under the Government of New York.

Besides these considerations from the publick utility it may be remarked

3. That several tracts of land to the Eastward of Hudson's River & above twenty miles distant from it towards the Massachusetts bay are held by the inhabitants of New York by grant from. the Governours thereof & paying yearly rents to the Crown; and likewise several other tracts to the Northward of the line run by New Hampshire as their Southern boundary and above twenty miles eastward from hudson's river are in like manner held by the Inhabitants of the Province of New York.