"I haye " extended the Western Boundary of New Hampshire as far West "as the Massachusetts Bay have done theirs, that is within "Twenty miles of Hudson's River" On which we Beg Leave to observe that his having done so, after Being informed of the Boundarys of this province by the Minute of Counecill of the 34 of April 1750 before mentioned, and by the Minute of June 5th 1750 that the Massachusetts Settlements Westward of those Boundarys, were made By Intrusion, is very Extraordinary : and we are further of Opinion that the Intrusions of the Massachusetts Bay within this province, Could be no good reason for Governour Wentworth to Committ the Like.

6thly We apprehend that New Hampshire has no concern with the Northern Boundarys of New York Because we Conceive that

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the North Two degrees West line, the Eastern Boundary of New Hampshire will (if M* Pople's Large map be right) Intersect Connecticut River, the Eastern Boundary of this province ; and if so, then New Hampshire is bounded to the West and North By Connecticut River.

7'hly Governour Wentworth has been greatly misinformed, Concerning the patents made by the Crown, To the Duke of York. Viz. of March 12 1663|4 and June 29t" 1674 Both which do grant to him in ffee, " All that Island or Islands Commonly called '"' by the several name or names of Matowacks or Long Island, Situate and being towards the West. of Cape Codd, and the " Narrow Higgansettes abutting upon the Main Land Between "the Two rivers there called or known By the several names of " Connecticut and Hudson's River Together also with the said " River Called Hudson's river and all the Land from the West " side of Connecticut River to the East Side of Delaware Bay," and there is nothing in either of those patents (which are all we. ever heard of) that Could give the Least Colour or Ground, for Governour Wentworth's suggestion that the Dukes Grant Commences at the Sea, and runs only sixty miles North into the Country: and was that Grant such as M' Wentworth imagines it to be the North Bounds of it would Cross Hudson's River above 100 miles South of or Below Albany instead of Twenty, as he supposes; for Albany is 150 miles distant from the City of New York, and New York about 20 miles from the Sea.