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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
an Exemption from the Payment of Quit Kent for such a number of years as his Majesty shall bepleased to indulge therein.
Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Port George in the City of New York the twenty-first day of September 1759 in the thirty-third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George theSecond by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith,and so forth
James De Lancet.
By His Honour’s Command
Gw. Banyar D Secry.
Province of New York ss: Alexander McClain of the City of New York Merchant—maketh Oaththat in the month of September last in his return from Canada , He made a short stay at CrownPoint and there saw a considerable number of persons about five or six among which were twoGentlemen said to be principal men in New Hampshire Government, and representatives in thatGeneral Assembly and Justices of the Peace that the rest of the Persons with them were also (aswas said) of that Colony, that these Persons declared that they came thither to Lay out Lands, and aman that appeared to be a principal person among them Declared that Crown point was in theirGovernment, the reason of his speaking it was a Dispute about the value of New Hampshire moneywhich he said ought to pass for as much there as nearer home the Company also said that theywere Laying out Lands on the East of Lake Champlain, and further this Deponent saith not.
Alex* McLeans.
Sworn this 15 th March 1763 )
before me W m Smith )
(Endorsed) 16 tij March, 1763. Read in Council.
PROCLAMATION DECLARING THE CONNECTICUT RIVER
TO BE THE EAST BOUNDS OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK.
By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; His Majesty’s Lieutenant Governor andCommander in Chief of the Province of New-York , and the Territories dependingthereon in America .
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas King Charles the Second, by his several Letters Patent bearing Date the 12th Dayof March , 1663-4, and the 29th June , 1674, did give and grant in Fee , unto his Brother, JamesDuke of For A:, certain Lands, of which the Province of New-York is a Part; containing, amongother Tracts, “ All that Island or Islands , commonly called by the several Name or Names ofMatowacks, or Long-Island , situate and being towards the West of Cape-Cod , and the Narrow Hig-gansetts, abutting upon the main Land between the two Rivers there called or known by theseveral Names of Connecticut and Hudson’s River. Together also with the said River, called Hudson?sRiver, and all the Land from the West Side of Connecticut River , to the East Side of Delaware-Bay .”
And whereas the Government of New Hampshire , by the Letters Patent of his late Majesty,