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

As the Extent of the Western & Northern Boundary of 'New Hampshire entirely depends on His Majesty's Pleasure, I need only inform your Lordships that Commissioners from the Crown have settled the Boundary between New York and Connecticut at twenty miles East of Hudsons River. The Massachusetts Bay have allowed the Government of New York to extend their Claim also twenty miles Hast of Hudsons River, and have

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carried on their Settlements in Conformity thereunto. One Ranesslaer claims twenty four miles square on the East, & twenty four miles square on the West side of Hudsons River, a Tract of Land sufficient for thirty two Townships of six Miles Square each & comprehends more good Land, than any other subject in His Majesty's Dominions, but Renesslaer has not thought fit to contend with the Massachusetts for the four miles, presuming it will be His Majesty's Pleasure, that a North & South Line should divide both the Massachusets and New Hampshire from the Government of New York. I have extended the Western Boundary of New Hampshire as far West as the Massachusets have done theirs, that is, within twenty Miles of Hudsons River.