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Sir.

[THOMAS VALLENTINE TO ALEXANDER COLDEN.]

Having Occasion to send a man to Montreal I take that opportunity of informing you that we have continued the Line to the Eastward of Lake Mamraabagack and are now about Fifty six miles from Lake Champlain. The Part of the Country that the Line passes over is very Mountaneous, indeed it is the very Heigth of the Land, and the Weather for some time past has been uncommonly windy and wet, which together with the Difficulty of getting the Provisions forward has retarded us a great deal. But let what Difficulties or Hardships soever attend it I on my part am Determined (tho I have never been able to recover from a violent cold I took on my first passing Lake Champlain) not to leave the Woods till the Survey is compleated. I request you may please to inform the Governor what I have wrote you, as we have not as much Paper fit to use as would contain a few lines to his Excellency.

Aug 16th 1772.

I am Sir with the most unfeigned respect
Y' most Obedient Humble Serv

THO VALLENTINE.

-[N. Y. Col. MSS., xcviii, 128.

[IN COUNCIL.]

At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York

on Friday the twenty first Day of August 1772.

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The Minutes of the Council held by his Excellency at Johnson Hall in the County of Tryon on the 29th of July last, being Read. The Board concurs in Opinion that it will be a proper Measure as soon as the Line of Partition between this Province and Quebec, shall be run from Lake Champlain to Connecticut River, for his Excellency to direct the Surveyors on the Part of both Provinces, to return to Point Moore, the Station fixed on the East side of Lake Champlain, and to extend the Division Line between the two Governments, until it shall intersect the River S Lawrence in the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude.

-[N. Y. Council Minutes, v. 26, p. 315.

Dear Sir.

[JOHN COLLINS TO ALEXANDER COLDEN.]

Boundary on Connecticut River October 1" 1772.

I have the pleasure to acquainte you that the Division line Betwen your Province and that of Quebec Terminates Two mile and five

Eighth of a mile upon a Direct line above the mouth of Halls Brook, Distance ninety mile and one fourth of a mile from the Boundary fixed on Lake Champlain time will not permit me to say more But that I am with great Esteem

Dr Sir your most faith and most Obedient Humble Servant

To Alex' Colding Esq'

JOHN COLLINS.

-[N. Y. Col. MSS., xcix, 6.

Sir

[THOMAS VALLENTINE TO ALEXANDER COLDEN.].

I take the earliest opportunity of informing you that we reached the Main branch of Connecticut river on the last day of September, the whole distance from where the Survey began is 90 miles. On the west bank of the river we Put up a Squared Post and laid a quantity of Stones about it and had all the Trees and bushes for some distance around it cleared away to render it more conspicuous; We returned by the river S Francois and arrived here on Sunday last, all possible expedition shall be used to prepare a map, copy our field Book and settle the Accounts, and I hope to be ready to return before the severe weather sets in.

The Abenaku Savages are much displeased with the course of the Line, say their Hunting Grounds are encroached on, and pull'd down a Post that we erected on the East Bank of Lake Mamraabagak, the offenders remain undiscover'd or I would have them Punished, and will use my utmost industry to find them out, as it may have bad consequences if sufferd to Pass unnoticed.

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At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York on Wednesday the sixteenth Day of December 1772.

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His Excellency communicated to the Board a Letter of the 12th November last from Mr Thomas Valentine, employed as a Surveyor on the part of this Province for running the Partition Line between this Colony and Quebec, from Lake Champlain to Connecticut River; informing his Excellency that the Surveyors of the two Provinces finished the

Survey on the 30th of September: That they found the Distance from Lake Champlain to the Place where the Line terminates on Connecticut River, to be about ninety Miles and a quarter: That he Arrived at Quebec the 18th of October, and that as he is of Opinion the continuing the Line Westward will be effected with far less Expence during the Winter or early in the Spring, than in the Summer Season, he intends not to risque the Passage on the Lake, but to remain at Quebec for his Excellency's farther Directions.

Whereupon the Board humbly advised his Excellency to signify to Governor Cramahi the Opinion of this Government, that it will be for the mutual Interest of both Provinces to complete their Boundary Line as soon as the Season will permit, by extending the Line already Run, from Lake Champlain Westward, until it shall intersect the River S' Lawrence in the forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude - That if this Proposal meets with his Approbation, it is conceived the Service will be best performed by the same Surveyors, but that if any thing should prevent M' Collins from attending; Mr Valentine has Instructions to proceed in Conjunction with such other Surveyor as shall be appointed on the part of Quebec: And that this Province will chearfully defray its proportionable part of this necessary Expence.

His Excellency also communicated to the Board a Letter from John Collins Esquire Deputy Surveyor of the Province of Quebec, dated on Connecticut River the 1" of October last, acquainting his Excellency that they had on that Day fixed the Boundary of the Division Line between this Province and that of Quebec on the West Bank of Connecticut River, two Miles and fifty Chains on a direct Line above the Mouth of a small River falling in on the West side of Connecticut River, known by the Name of Halls Brook, and called by the Indians Kenebimosikek at the distance of ninety Miles and Twenty Chains from the Eastern Bank of Lake Champlain: And signifying that his Excellency may depend the greatest Accuracy and Care had been observed through the Course of this Survey.

-[N. Y. Council Minutes (MS.), v. 26, p. 330.

At a Council held at the City Hall in the City of New
York on Wednesday the sixth Day of January, 1773.

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His Excellency communicated to the Council a Letter from Mr Thomas Valentine of the 17th Ultimo,' inclosing the Accounts of the Expences incurred in Surveying running and distinguishing the Partition Line between this Colony and the Government of Quebec; amounting as appears by the said Accounts to £458..15..5 Hallifax Currency; and

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acquainting his Excellency that there are several Sums not included in the said Account, which were objected to by M' Collins Surveyor on the part of Quebec, particularly M1 Valentine's Expences from New York to River La Cole, and from the Spring to the Commencement of the Summer Survey, M' Collins having made no Charge of his Expence on those Occasions against the Government of New York, but left each Province to pay its own Proportion of such Charges.

And the said accounts being Read the Council advised his Excellency to lay the same before the General Assembly, and to recommend to the House to make provision for the Payment thereof.

-IN. Y. Council Minutes (MS.), v. 26, p. 333.

[IN COUNCIL AND General Assembly.]

Wednesday, the sixth day of January, 1773.

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Gentlemen of the Council and Gentlemen of the General Assembly,

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I have the Satisfaction to inform you the dividing Line between this Province and the Government of Quebec has been run from Lake Champlain in the forty fifth Degree of North Latitude to Connecticut River. As the Commissioners who perform that Business winter in Quebec, that they may be ready early in the spring to continue that Line from the Lake westward to St Lawrence River, I am to apply to you for a further aid for that most essential service.

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The pernicious Effects or a doubtful Jurisdiction in the Districts affected by the uncertain Extent of the province, are so manifest, that your Endeavours to extinguish these destructive Controversies merit our grateful Acknowledgments, and animated by the same laudable Motives with your Excellency of promoting Industry, the security of Property and the general Tranquility, you may be assured Sir of our

cheerful Concurrence in every Measure, tending to give the Limits of the Province a certain and permanent establishment.

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By order of the Council.

-[N. Y. Legis. Council Journal, p. 1856.

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JOHN WATTS, Speaker.

At a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York on Monday the fifth Day of April 1773.

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His Excellency also communicated a Letter of the 10th March last from Lieutenent Governor Cramahé of Quebec, acquainting his Excellency that his Majesty's Council of that Government were unanimously of Oppinion that the Boundary Line between the two Governments should be run and distinguished from Lake Champlain to the River St Lawrence as had been proposed by this Province. And that the Surveyors were accordingly to proceed on that Work the Beginning of June. -[N. Y. Council Minutes (MS.), v. 26, p. 349.

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[THOMAS VALLENTINE TO LT.-Gov. CRAMAHE.]

M' Collins has informed me, that you desire I should communicate to you in writing, the reason I do not proceed with him on the Survey at the time we appointed viz. the first of June.

I have to inform your Honor, that I was some time ago afflicted with a Bilious Complaint, attended with a Cholic in my Bowels, and a Lax, which in a few days reduced me to a very weakly Situation. By the assistance of Dr' Hope I have been relieved from the Cholic for a Fortnight past, and tho' the Lax still continues I find myself gather strength and have reason to hope that three weeks or a month will reinstate my Health, so as to enable me to proceed on that business. And we have sufficient time to compleat the work we have to do after the beginning of July as may be seen by our Field Book for last Summer, it was the 21 July before we arrived where we were to begin our Work, and notwithstanding the many difficulties we had to surmount, surveyed about the same distance we have to run this Summer by the first of October.

I propose setting out for Montreal in a few days to be ready to join Mr Collins the moment my health will permit, and beg leave to assure your Honor it gives me the greatest Concern to be obliged to defer run'Similar Sentiments were expressed in the General Assembly's Address.— [P.

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