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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
3. That several tracts of land to the Eastward of Hudson’s River & above twenty miles distantfrom it towards the Massachusetts bay are held by the inhabitants of New York by grant from theGovernours thereof & paying yearly rents to the Crown ; and likewise several other tracts to theNorthward of the line run by New Hampshire as their Southern boundary and above twenty mileseastward from liudson’s river are in like manner held by the Inhabitants of the Province ofNew York .
4. That if his Majesty assert his right to the soil within his Province of New York as far eastas Connecticut river against tire Intrusions of the Massachusetts bay it would greatly encrease hisrevenue arising from the Quitrent of lands.
This is all which has occurred to me as proper to be added to the Attorney Generals representationwhich is submitted to the other Gentlemen of the Committee.
(Endorsed) Cadwallader Colden ’s observations ?on the representation of the Atty Gen 1 j
Extract from the Attorney and Solicitor Generals Report Dated August the 14 th 1752.On the State of the Case with respect to Certain Townships and Tracts of LandGranted by the Governments of the Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut in NewEngland .
u There are also about 60,000 Acres of Land situated on the West Side of Connecticut River which were purchased by private persons from the Government of Connecticut , to whom that Landhad been laid out by tire Government of the Massachusets Bay as an Equivalent for two or threeTownships which the Massachusetts Bay purchased from Connecticut Government. This Tractof Land by the Determination of the Boundary Line in 1738, is become a part of New Hampshire ,but the proprietors of it are subject to no conditions of Improvement, and the Land lies waste anduncultivated.”
SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF TRADE TO THE AGENT OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.
Whitehall Decem r 22 d 1752.
Sir I am directed by the Lords Commissioners for Trade & Plantations to send you the InclosedExtract of M 1 ' Wentworth’s Letter to their Lordships containing his Proposal for running a BoundaryLine between the Provinces of New York & New Hampshire & to desire that you would transmitthe same to your Constituents by the first Opportunity, that their Lordships maybe informed of theirsentiments upon it as soon as possible.
I am, Sir Your most humble servant
Thos Hill.