GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Twenty-eighth Day of December, 1763, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. By his Honour's Command, CapwALLApER CoLpEn.

Gw. Banyar, Dep. Secry. Gop save THE Kine.

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LT. GOV. COLDEN TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

New York 20th Jany 1764. My Lords The Dispute subsisting between this and his Majesty's Government of New Hampshire respecting their Boundary obliges me to lay the State of this Matter before your Lordships.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 561

In April 1750 Governor Clinton communicated to the Council a Letter of the 17m Novr from Mt Wentworth Governor of New Hampshire, representing that he had it in Command from his Majesty to make Grants of the unimproved Lands in New Hampshire, and Desiring Information how far North of Albany this Province extended, and how many miles to the Eastward of Hudson's River, to the Northward of the Massachusetts Line, that he might govern himself accordingly--As also an Extract of his Majesty's Commission to Mt Wentworth, describing the Boundaries of that Governmt By the Advice of the Council, Mr Clinton informed M* Wentworth, in Answer to his Request, 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."