REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

To the Honorable James Delancey Esq' his majesty's Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America.

The Representation of the Committee of his Majesty's Council of the Province of New York and the Commissioners appointed to examine into the Eastern Boundaries of the said province.

May it please your Honour Among the Papers laid before us relative to the dispute

between this Government and the Provinces of New Hampshire

and Massauchets Bay touching their Extent of Boundary We find an Extract of a Letter from Governor Wentworth to the

Board of Trade dated the 234 of March 1750|1 containing a

Proposal for setling a Partition Line between New York and

New Hampshire Which Extract together with a Letter from the

agent for this Colony and the Copy of a Letter from the Secretary to the Board of Trade to our Agent were some time since transmitted to Mt Clinton late Governor of this province that their Lordships might be informed of the sentiments of this

Government thereupon On which we humbly beg leave to represent to your Honour.

That on the 3¢ day of Aprill 1750, Governour Clinton Laid before the Councill of this province a Letter from Governour Wentworth, desireing information how far north of Albany this province extends, and how many miles to the Eastward of Hudson's River, To the Northward of the Massachusetts Line ; that he might Govern himself accordingly in the Grants he was to make in New Hampshire and that the Council of this. province then advised Governour Clinton ; To acquaint Governour Wentworth in answer to his said Letter, that this province is bounded Eastward By Connecticut river; the Letters Patent from King Charles the Second to the Duke of York, Expressly granting all the lands from the West side of Connecticut river, to the East side of Delaware Bay.