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G^° r ? C ’ probabl L S ave rise to the extended Jurisdiction of the Colony beyond the Duke’san s, signified by the Words “ The Territories depending thereon” which are found in all theommissions of the Crown to its Governors. Nor has the Crown except by the Confirmation of thegreemcnt fixing the Boundary of Connecticut at about Twenty miles East of Hudson’s Kiver at anylime contracted the jurisdiction of the Colony Westward of Connecticut River & Southward of theLatitude 45 the Proclamation of His present Majesty of the 7 th 0 f October 1763, leaving the juris-diction Southward of that Latitude as it stood before, tho’ it prohibits for the present the furtherExtention of the Grants and Settlements into the Country thereby reserved to the Indians, to avoidgiving Umbrage to that People who complained they were too much straitned in their huntinggrounds. It is uncertain to this Day to what Extent the Five Nations carried their claim to theWestward & Northward but there is no doubt it went to the North beyond the 45 Degree of Latitude and Westward to Lake Huron , their Beaver Hunting Country being bounded to the West by thatbake, which Country the Five Nations by Treaty with the Governor of this Province at Albany in1701, surrendered to the Crown to be protected and defended for them—Mitchel in bis Map extendstheir claim much further Westward and he is supported in this opinion by Maps and other Authoritiesvery Ancient and Respectable.

The above Treaty of 1701 is to be found among the Records of Indian Transactions but it is•recited and the Surrender made thereby confirmed in a Deed dated the 14 th September 1726 by whichthe Seneca, Cayouga and Onondaga Nations also surrender’d their Habitations to King George thefirst, a Copy whereof is inserted in the article of the Appendix , Number 1.

Oswego on the South side of Lake Ontario was first established by this Colony about 1724, a Gar-rison of the King’s Troops supported there at the Expence of this Government, and the Jurisdictionof New York actually exercised Westward to Oswego and its Vicinity until the Commencement ofHostilities in the "late war.

His Majestys Order of the 20 July 1764 confirming the Ancient Limits as granted the Duke de-clares “ The Western Banks of the River Connecticut from where it enters the Province of the“ Massachusetts Bay as far North as the Forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude,” to be the BoundaryLine between the two Provinces of New Hampshire and New York : And if the Agreement latelyconcluded at Hartford should finally be ratified by the Crown, the Eastern Limits of this Colonywhere it borders on the Massachusetts Province , will extend about twenty miles only East fromHudson’s River.

Boundary " of Without any view to the more Westerly claim of the Five Nations , supposing the ColonySmywin- to comprize within its Limits or Jurisdiction the Country those Nations Surrendered to the^humiw^'Crown by the Description of the Beaver Hunting Country as before mentioned—The Boun-

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fevered to ' daries of the Province of New York are as follows.

>ne Crown byTreaty with

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The Atlantic Ocean, including Long Island , Staten,Island and others of less note.

On the West

The Banks of Hudson’s River from Sandy Hook, on the Ocean, to the 41 Degree of Latitude ,thence the Line established between New York and New Jersey to Delaware River —Thence the RiverHelaware to the North East Corner of Pensylvania or the Beginning of the Latitude 43, which inMitchel’s Map is by mistake carried thro’ the whole of that degree—Thence the North BoundaryLine of Pensylvania to the Northwest Corner of that Province, and continuing the same Line to aPoint in Lake Erie which bears due South from the East Bank of the Streights of D’Etroit and ofLake Huron to the Forty Fifth Degree of Northern Latitude.

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