His Majesty taking the same into consideration was pleased with the advice of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, and doth accordingly hereby Order and Declare the Western Banks of the River Connecticut, from where it enters the Province of the Massachusets Bay, as far North as the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to be the Boundary Line between the said two Province of New Hampshire and New

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York. Whereof the respective Governors and Commanders in Chief of his Majesty's said Provinces of New Hampshire and New York for the time being and all others whom it may Concern are to take notice of his Majesty's Pleasure hereby signified and

_ Govern themselves accordingly. Wo. Brair.

SHERIFF SCHUYLER TO LT. GOV. COLDEN.

May it please your Honour ,

Last Fryday morning an Express arrived from Hoseck, acquainting that the New Hampshire people had turned Hans Jurry Creiger, an Inhabitant under the Proprietors of Hoseck Patent, out of Possession of his Lands and Tenements; drove off his Cattle and took off with them a Parcel of Indian Corn, and for the Redemption of his Cattle compelled him to pay forty five Dollars; And the said Express further informed that the said New Hampshire People were the next Day to be at the Houses of Peter Voss, and Bastiane Deale, in order in Like manner to dispossess them of their Possessions; which they had peaceably enjoy'd under the Proprietors of said Hoseck Patent for upwards of thirty years past, except only, when driven off by the Enemy Indians during the two last Wars.