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.

4. That if his Majesty assert his right to the soil within his Province of New York as far east as Connecticut river against the Intrusions of the Massachusetts bay it would greatly encrease his revenue arising from the Quitrent of lands.

This is all which has occurred to me as proper to be added to the Attorney Generals representation which is submitted to the

other Gentlemen of the Committee. CADWALLADER CoLpEN.

(Endorsed) Cadwallader Colden's observations

on the representation of the Atty Gen'

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_ Extract from the Attorney and Solicitor Generals Report

Dated August the 14th 1752. On the State of the Case

+ with respect to Certain Townships and Tracts of Land

Granted by the Governments of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut in New England.

"There are also about 60,000 Acres of Land situated on the West Side of Connecticut River which were purchased by private persons from the Government of Connecticut, to whom that Land had been laid out by the Government of the Massachusets Bay