34y We think that Governour Wentworth has Been greatly misinformed as to the Manor of Renselaerswyck, By his suggesting that it is claimed By one person, whereas great numbers of persons are owners of lands within it and the whole city of Albany Situated within the Boundaries of it.

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We know of no such Extent of Land within this province that has so much bad land in it as the Manor of Renselaerswyck. Also the principal owner of that Manor Renselaerswyck is an Infant and unable to contend with the Massachusetts Bay, But his Guardian hath Lately petitioned the Legislature of this province against the Incroachments Both of the Massachusetts Bay and New Hampshire on his pupills Estate.

4thly Governour Wentworth is pleased to express- himself thus, " presuming it will Be his Majesty's pleasure that a North and South line should divide both the Massachusetts and New Hampshire from the Government of New-York" On which we Observe that had Governour Wentworth been Informed, as We Believe the Truth is, that a North and South Line from the Northwest Corner of Connecticut Colony would have Crossed Hudson's River,some miles Southward or Below the City of Albany, and would Leave that City, and a great part of Hudson's River, To the Eastward of that Line, he could have had no reason for advancing that Presumption, and the rather, had he Been informed, as the fact Is, that the Dutch Settled Albany by the name of ffort Orange and had a ffort and Garrison there about 140 years agoe, Inany years before the Grant to the Councill of Plymouth under which the Massachusetts Bay had their first Claim.