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

548 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

as an Equivalent for two or three Townships which the Massachusetts Bay purchased from Connecticut Government. This Tract of Land by the Determination of the Boundary Line in 1738, is become a part of New Hampshire, but the proprietors of it are subject to no conditions of Improvement, and the Land lies waste and uncultivated."

SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF TRADE TO THE AGENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.

Whitehall Decem™ 224 1752.

Sir

Iam directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations to send you the Inclosed Extract of M' Wentworth's Letter to their Lordships containing his Proposal for running a Boundary Line between the Provinces of New York & New Hampshire & to desire that you would transmit the same to your Constituents by the first Opportunity, that their Lordships may be informed 'of their sentiments upon it as soon as possible.

I am, Sir Your most humble servant

Tuos Hur. Robert Charles Esqt Agent for

the Province of 'New York

[Enclosure.] Copy Extract of a Letter from Benning Wentworth Esq! Governor of New Hampshire, to the Board of Trade Dated 234 of March 1750/1