There are four Tracts of Land affected by that Partition, the Manor of Renselaerwyck granted in 1685, the Manor of Livingston in 1686, the Patent of Hosick in 1688, and the Patent of Westenhook in 1708, and I do not learn there are any possessions) under either of them to the Eastward of the line agreed upon by Commissaries.

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As these Grants are very extensive and valuable on the western side of the Line and charged with trifling rents and reservations, I have no reason to imagine the New York Patentees will either set up their claim in the Massachusetts Courts, or seek for a compensation out of any other of the waste lands that belong to the Crown. .

It is also very improbable on the other hand, that these N. York proprietors will meet with any further trouble from the Massachusett's Claimants, whose titles and possessions on the - West side of the line are modern, and whose losses can be abundantly recompensed by the Governt under which they settled, out of the vacant Jands of Sagadahock which are comprehended within the Charter. .

In the list of claimants under the Massachusetts Bay, I do not reckon those whose lands were discovered to be on the North side, which was adjudged-on the settlement of the controversy between that Provce & New Hampshire in 1739, to be the North boundary of the Massachusetts Bay. These compose the Townships of Brattleborough and Putney, and that part of Hinsdale, which was granted to Coll: Howard, the first settlers of which, upon that determination all acquired new Patents under New Hampshire, esteeming the Massachusett's title a meer nullity, and those Patents to have issued through mistake. Besides, My Lord, as to Brattleborough and Putney, they are both confirmed under New York, and so Hinsdale might have been, if the occupants, either from an unwillingness to pay the quit rent, or a slight of their Interest, had not neglected to make themselves and their case known to this Governt, until a part of their Township was granted to Coll : Howard, who brought over the Royal order for a grant of Ten thousand acres, and agreeable to the privileges given him in the Mandamus made his Election of that spot.