Wuereas King Charles the Second, by his several Letters Patent bearing Date the 12th Day of March, 1663-4, and the 29th June, 1674, did give and grant in Fee, unto his Brother, James Duke of York, certain Lands, of which the Province of New-York is a Part; containing, among other Tracts, " 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-Cod, and the Narrow Higgansetis, 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 Hudsons River, and ul the Land from the West Side of Connecticut River, jp the East Side of Delaware-Bay."

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 559

And whereas the Government of JVew-Hampshire, by the Letters Patent of his late Majesty, given at Whitehall, the third Day of July, 1741, is described in the Words following ; " Our Province of Mew-Hampshire, within Our Dominions of JWVew- England in America, bounded on the South Side by a similar Curve Line, pursuing the Course of Merrimac River, at three Miles Distance on the North Side thereof; beginning at the Atlantic Ocean, and ending at a Point due North of a Place called Puutucket Falls ; and by a straight Line drawn from thence due West cross the said River, ¢i/] it meets with our other Governments ; and bounded onthe South Side by a Line passing up through the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour, and up the Middle-of the River to the River of Mewichwannock, Part of which is now called Salmon Falls, and through the Middle of the same to the furthest Head thereof; and from thence North two Degrees Westerly, until One Hundred and Twenty Miles be finished from the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour aforesaid, or until it meets with our other Governments."