Be it Known: Whereas there hath been delivered unto us, by order of the Directors of the Incorporated West Company at the Chamber at Amsterdam, the Extract of the Articles of Agreement hereafter set forth, made and concluded at Hartford in Conitticot, the nineteenth of September, XVI' and fifty, relating as well to the Line of Division between New Netherland and New England as to other matters, in the words following,

Extract of the Articles of Agreement made and concluded at Hartford, situate in Conitticot, the 19"" September, 1G50, between the Arbitrators of the Hon'''* Commissioners of the United Colonies and Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland. With respect to the Boundary line between the United English Colonies, and the Dutch Province of New Netherland, we agree and conclude as follows 1. That on Long Island, a line drawn from the westernmost part of Oyster bay, and thence Boundary between the Dutch and in a direct and straight course to the sea shore, shall be the English on Long Island the Eastern part for the English, and the western part for the Dutch. ;

2. The boundary on the Mainland shall begin on the west side of Greenwich bay, being

about four miles from Stanford, and thence run inland in a northerly course Twenty miles, provided it shall not come within ten miles of the North river; after that as it shall be agreed upon by the two Governors -- i. e., of the Dutch and New Haven; and 'tis agreed that the Dutch shall not at any time hereafter build any houses within six miles of the said line the inhabitants of Greenwich to remain until further order and consideration under the government of the Dutch. 3. The Dutch shall hold and occupy the land at Hartford which they now actually possess,