6th June. Read in Council and approved of and the Council advised his Honour to transmit the same to the Board of Trade as desired.

PROCLAMATION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND BETWEEN FORT EDWARD & LAKE GEORGE.

WHEREAS from the Success of His Majesty's Arms, in the Reduction of the important Fortresses at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and the very Strong Works erecting at the latter, the whole Country along Hudson's River down to Albany, will for the future be so effectually covered and secured from the Ravages of the Enemy, that the Inhabitants may return to their Settlements and abide there with Safety to their Persons Families and Estates; in confidence of Which, many have already returned to their Habitations. And Whereas the Fortress now erecting at Crown Point, is in great forwardness, and His Excellency Major General Amherst hath assured me, that he is determined it shall be so far finished before the Troops go into Winter Quarters, as to answer the Purpose of covering and protecting the Country: and as an Encouragement to Settlers, he has desired I would make known, that those who with the leave of this Government shall now choose to go and settle between Lake George and Fort Edward, will there find, three Several Spotts of cleared Ground, two of them capable of containing half a dozen Families each, and the other not less than twelve: On which shall be left standing for their Convenience the Wooden Hutts and Coverings of the Troops that have been posted there since the Beginning of

the Campaign, which from the Footing we have now at Crown Point, will be no longer necessary, and will be evacuated and left for the use of those who shall become Settlers. The first of the said Spotts is situated four miles above Fort Edward; The Second at the Half way Brook; and the other three miles from Lake George. The Soil good and capable of Improvement, and all three well watered. The Halfway Brook being the Spott sufficient for a dozen Families. I have therefore thought fit by and with the Advice of His Majesty's Council to issue this Proclamation, Hereby inviting the Inhabitants who formerly abandoned their Dwellings to return to their Settlements, and improve the advantages offered to them under the Protection and Cover of the important Posts and Strong Fortresses above mentioned. And as an inducement to such as shall be inclined to settle on any or either of the three Spotts of Ground above described: I do hereby promise his Majesty's Grant thereof to any Persons who shall apply for the same, on condition of immediate settlement thereof in the form of a Township, with a sufficient quantity of Woodland adjoining for that purpose; and that I will use my Endeavours to obtain for the Grantees an Exemption from the Payment of Quit Rent for such a number of years as his Majesty shall be pleased to indulge therein.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Arms at Fort 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 the Second by the Grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith, and so forth

By His Honour's Command

GW. BANYAR D Secry

JAMES DE LANCEY.

GOD SAVE THE KING.

Province of New York ss: Alexander McClain of the City of New York Merchant-maketh Oath that in the month of September last in his return from Canada, He made a short stay at Crown Point and there saw a considerable number of persons about five or six among which were two Gentlemen said to be principal men in New Hampshire Government, and representatives in that General Assembly and Justices of the Peace that

the rest of the Persons with them were also (as was said) of that Colony, that these Persons declared that they came thither to Lay out Lands, and a man that appeared to be a principal person among them Declared that Crown point was in their Government, the reason of his speaking it was a Dispute about the value of New Hampshire money which he said ought to pass for as much there as nearer home the Company also said that they were Laying out Lands on the East of Lake Champlain, and further this Deponent saith not.

ALEXR MCLEANS.

(Endorsed) 16th 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 and Commander in Chief of the Province of New-York, and the Territories depending thereon in America.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS King Charles the Second, by his several Letters Patent bearing Date the 12th Day of March, 1663-4, and the 29th June, 1674, did give and grant in Fee, unto his Brother, James Duke of York, certain Lands, of which the Province of New-York is a Part; containing, among other Tracts, "All that Island or Islands, commonly called by the several Name or Names of Matowacks, or Long-Island, situate and being towards the West of Cape-Cod, and the Narrow Higgansetts, abutting upon the main Land between the two Rivers there called or known by the several Names of Connecticut and Hudson's River. Together also with the said River, called Hudson's River, 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, given at Whitehall, the third Day of July, 17411, is described in the Words following; "Our Province of New-Hampshire, within Our Dominions of NewEngland in America, bounded on the South Side by a similar Curve Line, pursuing the Course of Merrimac River, at three Miles Distance on the North Side thereof; beginning at the Atlantic Ocean, and ending at a Point due North of a Place called Puutucket Falls; and by a straight Line drawn from thence due West cross the said River, till it meets with our other Governments; and bounded on the South Side by a Line passing up through the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour, and up the Middle of the River to the River of Newichwannock, Part of which is now called Salmon Falls, and through the Middle of the same to the furthest Head thereof; and from thence North two Degrees Westerly, until One Hundred and Twenty Miles be finished from the Mouth of Piscataqua Harbour aforesaid, or until it meets with our other Governments."

And whereas it manifestly appears by the several Grants or Letters Patent above recited, that the Province of New-York is bounded to the Eastward by the River Connecticut: That the Province of New-Hampshire, being expressly limited in its Extent Westward and Northward by His Majesty's other Governments, is confined to the same River as to its Western Boundary; and that the said Government of New-Hampshire is not intituled to Jurisdiction Westward, beyond the Limits of that River.

And whereas the said Government of New-Hampshire, tho' fully apprized of the Right of this Government, under the Letters Patent aforementioned to the Duke of York; and sensible also that his Majesty had not been pleased to establish other Boundaries between his said two Provinces, hath granted Lands Westward of Connecticut River, within the Limits and Jurisdiction of the Government of New-York; in Virtue whereof, sundry Persons, ignorant that they could not derive a legal Title under such Grants, have attempted the Settlement of the Lands included therein, and have actually possessed themselves of Soil before granted within this Province; while others claiming under the

said Government of New-Hampshire, have endeavored to impose on the Inhabitants here, by offering to Sale, at a low Rate, whole Townships of Six Miles Square, lately granted by the said Government Westward of Connecticut River.

To prevent therefore the Incautious from becoming Purchasers of the Lands so granted; to assert the Rights, and fully to maintain the Jurisdiction of the Government of this His Majesty's Province of New-York; I have thought fit, with the Advice of His Majesty's Council, to issue this Proclamation, hereby commanding and requiring all Judges, Justices, and other Civil Officers within the same, to continue to exercise Jurisdiction in their respective Functions, as far as to the Banks of Connecticut. River, the undoubted Eastern Limits of that Part of the Province of New-York, notwithstanding any Contrariety of Jurisdiction claimed by the Government of New-Hampshire, or any Grants of Land Westward of that River, made by the said Government. AND I DO hereby enjoin the High Sheriff of the County of Albany, to return to me or the Commander in Chief, the Names of all and every Person and Persons, who under the Grants of the Government of New-Hampshire, do or shall hold the Possession of any Lands Westward of Connecticut River, that they may be proceeded against according to Law.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort-George, in the City of New-York, the Twenty-eighth Day of December, 1763, in the Fourth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the Grace of GOD, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and so forth. By his Honour's Command, CADWALLADER COLDEN.

GW. BANYAR, Dep. Secry.
GOD SAVE THE KING.

LT. GOV. COLDEN TO THE BOARD OF TRADE.

My Lords

New York 20th Jany 1764.

The Dispute subsisting between this and his Majesty's Government of New Hampshire respecting their Boundary obliges me to lay the State of this Matter before your Lordships.