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 No. i6. — July, 1894. 
 
 DOCUMENTS ILLUSTRATING THE TER- 
 RITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE 
 UNITED STATES, 1584-1774. 
 
 This number contains those portions of the Colonial Charters which 
 describe and define the boundaries of the Colonies. A few extracts from 
 other official documents have been added as illustrating the general 
 subject or explaining some particular point. The documents, or portions 
 of documents, here presented, have been the basis of an endless succession 
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 showing the student the difficulties which beset the historical writer than 
 to direct him to mark on a map or to describe the boundaries of some 
 of the original States, — Virginia in 1776, for example. 
 
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 aries of the United States, printed as a Bulletin of the Geological Surifey, 
 Washington, 1885; Donaldson, The Public Domain, Washington, 1884, 
 to be used only with the greatest caution ; Winsor, in Narrative and 
 Critical History, VII., App. No. I. For other references, see Channing 
 
and Hart, Guide to the Study of Ajuerican History^ sec. 64, and Narrative 
 and Critical History, Vol. VII., as above, and Vols. III. and V., under 
 the several Colonies. Maps designed to elucidate these problems may be 
 found in Hart, Epoch Maps, where an attempt was made to show the 
 boundaries according to legal decisions; l!A2LcCovin, Historical Geography 
 of the United States ; and B. A. Hinsdale, Old Northwest. 
 
 1584. CHARTER TO SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 
 
 Free libertie and licence from time to time, and at all 
 times for ever hereafter, to discover, search, finde out, and 
 view such remote, heathen and barbarous lands, countreis, 
 and territories, not actually possessed of any Christian Prince, 
 nor inhabited by Christian People, as to him, his heires and 
 assignes, and to every or any of them shall seeme good, and 
 the same to have, holde, occupie and enjoy to him, his heires 
 and assignes for ever, with all prerogatives, commodities, 
 jurisdictions, royalties, privileges, franchises, and prehemi- 
 nences, thereto or thereabouts both by sea and land, whatso- 
 ever we by our letters patents may graunt, and as we or any 
 of our noble progenitors have heretofore graunted to any per- 
 son or persons, bodies politique or corporate. — Charters and 
 Constitutions of the Ufiited States, p. 1379. 
 
 1603. THE CHARTER OF ACADIA. 
 
 Granted by Henry IV. of Fra^ice to Pierre du Gast, sieur de 
 Monts. 
 
 Nous avon pour beaucoup d'importantes occasions, 
 ordonne, commis «& etabli le sieur de Monts, Gentilhomme 
 ordinaire de notre Chambre, notre Lieutenant general, pour 
 peupler & habiter les terres, cotes & pays de I'Acadie, & 
 autres circonvoisins, en I'etendue du quarantieme degrejusqu' 
 au quarante-sixieme, & la etablir notre autorite, & autrement 
 s'y loger & assurer ; en sorte que nos sujets desormais y 
 puissent etre regGs, y hauter, resider & trafiquer avec les 
 Sauvages habitans desdits lieux, comme plus expressements 
 nous I'avons declare par nos lettres patentes, exp^di^es & 
 
delivrees pour cet effet audit sieur de Monts le huitieme jour 
 de novembre dernier, suivant les conditions & articles, 
 moyennant lesquelles il s'est charge de la conduite & execu- 
 tion de cette entreprise. — Charters a?td Constitutions of the 
 United States, p. 773. 
 
 [translation.] 
 
 For important reasons, we have ordered, commissioned 
 and appointed the sieur de Monts, Gentleman in Ordinary 
 of our Chamber, our Lieutenant General, to people and 
 colonize the lands, shores and countries of Acadia, and 
 other neighboring lands, extending from the fortieth degree 
 to the forty-sixth, an^ to establish there our authority, and 
 otherwise to establish and secure himself there ; in order 
 that our subjects may henceforth be received there, to build, 
 reside and traffic there with the savages living in the said 
 places, as we have more expressly declared by our letters 
 patent, expedited and delivered, to this effect, to the said 
 sieur de Monts, the eight day of November last, according to 
 the conditions and articles with which he is charged for the 
 conduct and execution of this undertaking. 
 
 1606. THE FIRST CHARTER OF VIRGINIA. 
 
 That part of America commonly called Virginia, and 
 other parts and Territories in A?nerica, either appertaining 
 unto us, or which are not now actually possessed by any 
 Christian Prince or People, situate, lying, and being all 
 along the Sea Coasts, between four and thirty Degrees of 
 Northerly Latitude from the Equinoctial Line, and five and 
 forty Degrees of the same Latitude, and in the main Land 
 between the same four and thirty and five and forty Degrees, 
 and the Islands thereunto adjacent, or within one hundred 
 Miles of the Coast thereof; 
 
 And to that End, and for the more speedy Accomplish- 
 ment of their said intended Plantation and Habitation there, 
 are desirous to divide themselves into tv»^o several Colonies and 
 Companies ; the one consisting of certain Knights, Gentle- 
 men, Merchants, and other Adventurers, of our City of Lon- 
 
don and elsewhere, Avhich are, and from time to time shall be, 
 joined unto them, which do desire to begin their Plantation 
 and Habitation in some fit and convenient Place, between 
 four and thirty and one and forty Degrees of the said Lati- 
 tude, alongst the Coasts of Virgi?iia, and the Coasts of Amer- 
 ica aforesaid : And the other consisting of sundry Knights, 
 Gentlemen, Merchants, and other Adventurers, of our Cities 
 of Bristol and Exeter , and of our Town of Plimouih, and of 
 other Places, which do join themselves unto that Colony, 
 which do desire to begin their Plantation and Habitation in 
 some fit and convenient Place, between eight and thirty 
 Degrees and five and forty Degrees of the said Latitude, all 
 alongst the said Coasts of Virginia j^xidi America, as that 
 Coast lyeth. 
 
 That the said Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Rich- 
 a?'d HacJzliiit, and Ediuard-Maria IVingfield, Adventurers of 
 and for our City of London, and all such others, as are, or 
 shall be, joined unto them of that Colony, shall be called the 
 first Colony; And they shall and may begin their said first 
 Plantation and Habitation, at any Place upon the said Coast 
 of Virginia or America, where they shall think fit and con- 
 venient, between the said four and thirty and one and forty 
 Degrees of the said Latitude. 
 
 And we do likewise, for Us, our Heirs, and Successors, by 
 these Presents, Grant and agree, that the said Thomas Han- 
 ham and Ralegh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Pop- 
 ham, and all others of the Town of Plimouth in the County 
 of Devon, or elsewhere, which are, or shall be, joined unto 
 them of that Colony, shall be called the second Colony ; And 
 that they shall and may begin their said Plantation and Seat 
 of their first Abode and Habitation, at any Place upon the 
 said Coast of Virginia and Ajnerica, where they shall think 
 fit and convenient, between eight and thirty Degrees of the 
 said Latitude, and five and forty Degrees of the same Lati- 
 tude ; And that they shall have all the Lands, Soils, Grounds, 
 Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals^ Woods, Marshes, 
 Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, whatso- 
 ever, from the first Seat of their Plantation and Habitation by 
 the Space of fifty like English Miles, as is aforesaid, all 
 
alongst the said Coasts of Virginia and America, towards the 
 West and Southwest, or towards the South, as the Coast lyeth, 
 and all the Islands within one hundred Miles, directly over 
 against the said Sea Coast; And also all the Lands, Soils, 
 Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Mines, Minerals, Woods, 
 Marshes, Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, 
 whatsoever, from the said Place of their first Plantation and 
 Habitation for the Space of fifty like Miles, all alongst the 
 said Coast of Virginia and America, towards the East and 
 Northeast, or towards the North, as the Coast lyeth, and all 
 the Islands also within one hundred Miles directly over 
 against the same Sea Coast ; And also all the Lands, Soils, 
 Grounds, Havens, Ports, Rivers, Woods, Mines, Minerals, 
 Marshes, Waters, Fishings, Commodities, and Hereditaments, 
 whatsoever, from the same fifty Miles every way on the Sea 
 Coast, directly into the main Land, by the Space of one 
 hundred like English Miles; And shall and may inhabit and 
 remain there ; and shall and may also build and fortify 
 within any the same for their better Safeguard, according to 
 their best Discretion, and the Discretion of the Council of 
 that Colony; And that none of our Subjects shall be per- 
 mitted, or suffered, to plant or inhabit behind, or on the 
 back of them, towards the main Land, without express 
 Licence of the Council of that Colony, in Writing thereunto 
 first had and obtained. 
 
 Provided always, and our Will and Pleasure herein is, that 
 the Plantation and Habitation of such of the said Colonies, 
 as shall last plant themselves, as aforesaid, shall not be made 
 within one hundred like English Miles of the other of them, 
 that first began to make their Plantation, as aforesaid. — 
 Charters and Constitutions of the United States, pp. 1889, 
 1890. 
 
 1609. THE SECOND CHARTER OF VIRGINIA. 
 
 And we do also of our special Grace, certain Knowledge, 
 and mere Motion, give, grant and confirm, unto the said 
 Treasurer and Company, and their Successors, under the 
 Reservations, Limitations, and Declarations hereafter ex- 
 
pressed, all those Lands, Countries, and Territories, situate, 
 l3'ing, and being in that Part of America, called Virginia, 
 from the Point of Land, called Cape or Foifit Comfort, all 
 along the Sea Coast to the Northward, two hundred miles, 
 and from the said Point of Cape Co^nfort, all along the Sea 
 Coast to the Southward, two hundred Miles, and all that 
 Space and Circuit of Land, lying from the Sea Coast of the 
 Precinct aforesaid, up into the Land throughout from Sea to 
 Sea, West and Northwest ; And also all the Islands lying 
 within one hundred Miles along the Coast of both Seas of the 
 Precinct aforesaid. — Charters and Constitutions of the United 
 States, p. 1897. 
 
 1611-12. THE THIRD CHARTER OF VIRGINIA. 
 
 Give, grant, and confirm to the said Treasurer and Com- 
 pany of Adventurers and Planters of the city of London for 
 the first Colony in Virginia, and to their Heirs and Success- 
 ors for ever, all and singular those Islands whatsoever situate 
 and being in any Part of the Ocean Seas bordering upon the 
 Coast of our said first Colony in Virginia, and being within 
 three Hundred Leagues of any of the Parts heretofore granted 
 to the said Treasurer and Company in our said former Let- 
 ters-Patents as aforesaid, and being within or between the 
 one-and-fortieth and thirtieth Degrees of Northerly Latitude. 
 — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, p. 1903. 
 
 1614. RESOLUTION OF THE STATES GENERAL 
 [of the United Netherlands] ON THE REPORT OF 
 THE DISCOVERY OF NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 Their High Mightinesses have granted and allowed, and 
 hereby grant and allow, the Petitioners that they alone shall 
 have the right to resort to, or cause to be frequented, the 
 aforesaid newly discovered countries situate in America be- 
 tween New France and Virginia, the sea coasts whereof lie in 
 
the Latitude of from forty to forty-five degrees, now named 
 New Netherland, as is to be seen by a Figurative Map here- 
 unto annexed. — Documents relative to the Colonial History of 
 New York, I., lo. 
 
 1614. GRANT OF EXCLUSIVE TRADE TO 
 NEW NETHERLAND. 
 
 The States General of the United Netherlands to all to 
 whom these presents shall come, Greeting : ... do 
 consent and grant, to the said Petitioners now united into 
 one Company, that they shall be privileged exclusively to 
 frequent or cause to be visited, the above newly discovered 
 lands, situate in America between New France and Virginia, 
 whereof the sea coasts lie between the fortieth and forty-fifth 
 degrees of Latitude, now named New Netherland, as can be 
 seen by a Figurative Map hereunto annexed. — Documents 
 relative to the Colonial History of New York, L, 11. 
 
 1620. THE CHARTER OF NEW ENGLAND. 
 
 Establish, that all that Circuit, Continent, Precincts, and 
 Limitts in America, lying and being in Breadth from Fourty 
 Degrees of Northerly Latitude, from the Equnoctiall Line, to 
 Fourty-eight Degrees of the said Northerly Latitude, and in 
 length by all the Breadth aforesaid throughout the Maine 
 Land, from Sea to Sea, with all the Seas, Rivers, Islands, 
 Creeks, Inletts, Ports, and Havens, within the Degrees, Pre- 
 cincts, and Limitts of the said Latitude and Longitude, shall 
 be the Limitts, and Bounds, and Precincts of the second Col- 
 lony : And to the End that the said Territoryes may forever 
 hereafter be more particularly and certainly known and dis- 
 tinguished, our Will and Pleasure is, that the same shall from 
 henceforth be nominated, termed, and railed by the name of 
 New-England, in America. — Charters and Constitutio?is of 
 the United States, pp. 992, 993. 
 
i62i. CHARTER OF THE DUTCH WEST INDIA 
 COMPANY. 
 
 That for the Term of four and Twenty years, none of the 
 Natives or Inhabitants of these countries shall be permitted 
 to sail to or from the said lands, or to traffic on the coast and 
 countries oi Africa from the T?-oJ)ic of Cancer to the Cape of 
 Good Hope, nor in the countries of America, or the West- 
 Indies, beginning at the south end of Te7'ra Nova, by the 
 streights of Magellan, La Maire, or any other streights and 
 passages situated thereabouts to the streights of Anian, as well 
 on the north sea as the south sea, nor on any islands situated 
 on the one side or the other, or between both ; nor in the 
 western or southern countries reaching, lying, and between 
 both the meridians, from the Cape of Good Hope, in the 
 East, to the east end of New Guinea, in the West, inclusive, 
 but in the Name of this United Company of these United 
 Netherlands. — Hazard's American State Papers, I., 121- 
 123. 
 
 1629. THE CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 
 
 And Whereas, the saide Councell established at 
 Plymouth, in the County of Devon, for the plantinge, ruling, 
 ordering, and governing of Newe England in America, have 
 by their Deede, indented under their Comon Scale, bearing 
 Date the nyneteenth Day of March last past, in the third 
 Yeare of our Raigne, given, graunted, bargained, soulde, 
 enfeoffed, aliened, and confirmed to Sir Henry Rosewell, Sir 
 John Young, Knightes, Thomas Southcott, John Humphrey, 
 John Endecott, and Symon Whetcombe, their Heires and 
 Assignes, and their Associats for ever, all that Parte of Newe 
 England in America aforesaid, which lyes and extendes be- 
 tween a greate River there comonlie called Monomack alias 
 Merrimack, and a ccrten other River there, called Charles 
 River, being in the IJottom of a certayne Bay there, comonlie 
 called Massachusetts, alias Mattachusetts, alias Massatusetts 
 
Bay, and also all and singular those Landes and Heredita- 
 ments whatsoever, lyeing within the Space of three English 
 Myles on the South Parte of the said Charles River, or of 
 any, or everie Parte thereof; and also, all and singuler the 
 Landes and Hereditaments whatsoever, lyeing and being 
 within the Space of three English Myles to the Southwarde 
 of the Southermost Parte of the saide Bay called Massachu- 
 setts, alias Mattachusetts, alias Massatusetts Bay ; and also, 
 all those Landes and Hereditaments whatsoever, which lye, 
 and be within the space of three English Myles to the North- 
 ward of the said River called Monomack, alias Merrymack, 
 or to the Northward of any and every Parte thereof, and all 
 Landes and Hereditaments whatsoever, lyeing within the 
 Lymitts aforesaide, North and South in Latitude and bredth, 
 and in Length and Longitude, of and within all the Bredth 
 aforesaide, throughout the Mayne Landes there, from the 
 Atlantick and Westerne Sea and Ocean on the East Parte, to 
 the South Sea on the West Parte ; 
 
 All that Parte of Nevve England in America, which lyes 
 and extendes between a great River there, comonlie called 
 Monomack River, alias Merrimack River, and a certen other 
 River there, called Charles River, being in the Bottome of a 
 certen Bay there, comonlie called Massachusetts, alias 
 Mattachusetts, alias Massatusetts Bay ; and also all and singu- 
 ler those Landes and Hereditaments whatsoever, lying within 
 the Space of three Englishe Myles on the South Parte of the 
 said River, called Charles River, or of any or every Parte 
 thereof; and also all and singuler the Landes and Heredita- 
 ments whatsoever, lying and being within the Space of three 
 English Miles to the southward of the southermost Parte of 
 the said Baye, called Massachusetts, alias Mattachusetts, alias 
 Massatusetts Bay : And also all those Landes and Heredita- 
 ments whatsoever, which lye and be within the Space of 
 Three English Myles to the Northward of the saide River, 
 called Monomack, alias Merrymack, or to the Northward of 
 any and every Parte thereof, and all Landes and Heredita- 
 ments whatsoever, lyeing within the Lymitts aforesaide, North 
 and South, in Latitude and Bredth, and in Length and 
 Longitude, of and within all the Bredth aforesaide, through- 
 
out the mayne Landes there, from the Atlantick and Western 
 Sea and Ocean on the East Parte, to the South Sea on' the 
 West Parte. — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, 
 P- 934- 
 
 1632. TREATY OF ST. GERMAIN. 
 Traite entre Louis XIII., Roi de France, et Charles I., Roi 
 d' Angleterre, pour la restitution de la Nouvelle France 
 r Acadie et le Canada, et des Navires et Marchandises 
 pris de par et d' autre. Fait a St. Germain-en- Lay e, le 
 2geme jour de Mais, 1632. 
 III. De la part de Sa Majeste de la Grande Bretagne, ledit 
 Sieur Ambassadeur, (Sir Isaac Wake,) en vertu du pouvoir 
 qu'il a,lequel sera a la fin des presentes, a promis et promet pour 
 et au nom de Sadite Majeste, de rendre et restituer a Sa 
 Majeste Tres-Chretienne, tous les lieux occupes en la Nou- 
 velle France, I'Acadie et le Canada, pas les sujets de Sa 
 Majeste de la Grande Bretagne, iceux faire retirer desdits 
 lieux. Et pour cet effet ledit Sieur Ambassadeur delivrera, 
 lors de la passation et signature des presentes, aux commissaires 
 du Roi Tres-Chretien, en bonne forme le Pouvoir qu'il a de 
 Sa Majeste de la Grande Bretagne, pour la restitution desdits 
 lieux, ensemble les commandements de Sadite Majeste, a tous 
 ceux qui commandent dans le Fort-Royal, Fort de Quebec et 
 Cap Breton, pour etre lesdites places et forts rendues et remis 
 es mains de ceux qu'il plaira a Sa Majeste Tres-Chretienne 
 ordonner, huit jours apres lesdits commandements auront ete 
 notifiees a ceux qui commandent ou commanderont esdits 
 lieux, ledit tems de huit jours leur etant donne pour 
 retirer. . . . — Lindsey, Boundaries of Ontario, p. 107. 
 
 [translation.] 
 On behalf of his Majesty of Great Britain, the said Am- 
 bassador, (Sir Isaac Wake) in virtue of the power held by 
 him, which will be at the end of these presents, has promised 
 and promises for and in the name of his said Majesty, to 
 give up and restore to his Most Christian Majesty all the 
 lands occupied by the subjects of his Britannic Majesty, in 
 New France, Acadia, and Canada, the said subjects to be 
 
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 withdrawn from said lands. And to this effect, the said 
 Ambassador will deliver, at the time of the executing and 
 signing of these presents, to the commissioners of the Most 
 Christian King, in good form the power which he has from 
 his Majesty of Great Britain, for the restoration of the said 
 lands, according to the orders of his said Majesty, to all 
 those who comjnand at Fort Royal, Fort Quebec, and Cape 
 Breton, that the said lands and forts be given up and placed 
 in the hands of those it shall please his Most Christian 
 Majesty to appoint, eight days after the said orders shall be 
 communicated to those who are in command or who shall 
 be in command of said lands, the said time of eight days 
 being given them for withdrawing. 
 
 1632. CHARTER OF MARYLAND. 
 
 Concedimus et Confirmamus totam illam Partem Penin- 
 sulae sive Chersonesi jacentis in Partibus Americae inter 
 Oceanum, ex Oriente et simum de Chesapeake ab Occidente a 
 Residuo ejusdem per rectam Lineam a Promontorio sive 
 Capite Terrae vocato IVatkin' s jPoi'n^ juxta. Sinum praedictum 
 prope Fluvium de IVighco scituato ab Occidente usque ad 
 magnum Oceanum in Plaga Orientali ductam divisam Et inter 
 Metam illam a Meridie usque ad Partem illam Estuarii de 
 Delaware ab Aquilone quae subjacet quadragesimo Gradui 
 Latitudinis Septentrionalis ab Aequinoctiali ubi terminatur 
 Nova Anglia totumque illius Terrae Tractum infra Metas sub- 
 scriptas (videlicet) Transeundo a dicto Aestuario vocato 
 Delaware Bay recta Linea per Gradum praedictum usque ad 
 verum Meridianum primi Foutis Flumenis de Pattowjuack 
 deinde vergendo versus Meridiem ad ulteriorem dicti Flumi- 
 nis Ripam et cam sequendo qua Plaga occidentalis ad Meri- 
 dionalem spectat usque ad Locum quendam appellatum Cin- 
 quack prope ejusdem Fluminis Ostium scituatum ubi in prae- 
 fatum Sinum de Chessopeake evolvitur as inde per Lineam 
 brevissimam usque ad praedictum Promontorium sive Locum 
 vocatum Watkhi' s Point — Ita quod totus Terrae Tractus per 
 Lineam praedictam inter magnum Oceanum et Watkin' s 
 Point divisus usque ad Promontorium vocatum Cape Charles. 
 — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, p. 811. 
 
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 [translation.] 
 
 ''We, . . . , do give, grant and confirm unto the afore- 
 said Ceciliiis, now Baron of Baltimore, his heirs and assigns, 
 all that part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the 
 parts of America between the ocean on the east and the bay 
 of Chesapeake on the west ; divided from the residue thereof 
 by a right line drawn from the promontory or head-land, 
 called Watkin's Point, situated upon the bay aforesaid, near 
 the river Wighco on the west, unto the main ocean on the 
 east ; and between that boundary on the south, unto that part 
 of the bay of Delaware on the north, which lyeth under the 
 fortieth degree of north latitude from the aequinoctial, where 
 New England is terminated ; and all the tract of that land 
 within the metes underwritten — (that is to say) passing from 
 the said bay, called Delaware bay, in a right line by the de- 
 gree aforesaid, unto the true meridian of the first fountain of 
 the river of Pattowmack, thence verging towards the south, 
 unto the farther bank of the said river, and following the 
 same on the west and south, unto a certain place called Cin- 
 quack, situate near the mouth of the said river, whence it 
 disembogues into the aforesaid bay of Chesapeake, and thence 
 by the shortest line unto the aforesaid promontory, or place, 
 called Watkin's Point. So that the whole tract of land, 
 divided by the line aforesaid, between the main ocean and 
 Watkin's Point, unto the promontory called Cape Charles, 
 and every the appendages thereof, may entirely remain ex- 
 cepted for ever to us, our heirs and successors." — Scharfs 
 History of Alary land, I., 53. 
 
 1629. CxRANT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 [The Council for New England] do give, grant, bargain, 
 sell, assign, alicne, set over, enfeof, and confirm unto the 
 said Captain John Mason, his Heires and Assigns, all that 
 Part of the main Land in New-England, lying upon the Sea 
 Coast, beginning from the middle Part of Merrimack River, 
 and from thence to proceed northwards along the Sea Coast 
 to Piscataqua River, and so forwards up within the said 
 
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 River, and to the furthest Head thereof, and from thence 
 northwestwards, until three Score Miles be finished from the 
 first Entrance of Piscataqua River and also from Merrimack 
 through the said River, and to the furthest Head thereof, and 
 so forwards up into the Lands westwards until three Score 
 Miles be finished ; and from thence to cross over Land to the 
 three Score Miles, and accompted from Piscataqua River, to- 
 gether with all Islands and Islets within Five Leagues Dis- 
 tance of the Premisses, and abutting upon the same or any 
 Part or Parcel thereof . . . — Charteis and Constitutions of 
 the United States, p. 1 2 7 1 . 
 
 1635. GRANT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 Now know all men by these presents, that the said Coun- 
 sell of New England, in America, being assembled in publick 
 court, according to an act made and agreed upon the third 
 day of February last past, before the date of these presents, 
 for diverse good causes and considerations them there unto 
 espetially moveing, Have given, granted, aliened, barganed 
 and sould, and in and by these presents do for them and 
 their successors, give, grant, alien, bargane, sell and confirm 
 unto Capt. John Mason, Esq ; his heyres, and assignes, all 
 that part of the Mayn Land of New England aforesaid, be- 
 ginning from the middle part of Naumkeck River, and from 
 thence to proceed eastwards along the Sea Coast to Cape 
 Anne, and round about the same to Pischataway Harbour, 
 and soe forwards up within the river of Newgewanacke, and 
 to the furthest head of the said River, and from thence north- 
 westwards till sixty miles bee finished, from the first entrance 
 of Pischataqua Harbor, and alsoe from Naumkecke through 
 the River thereof up into the land west sixty miles, from 
 which period to cross over land to the sixty miles end, ac- 
 compted from Pischataway, through Newgewanacke River to 
 the land northwest aforesaid ; and alsoe all that the South 
 Halfe of the Ysles of Sholes, all which lands, with the Con- 
 sent of the Counsell, shall from henceforth be called New- 
 hampshyre : And alsoe ten thousand acres more of land in 
 
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 New England aforesaid, on the southeast part of Sagadihoc, 
 at the mouth or entrance thereof, from henceforth to bee 
 called by the name of Massonia ; togeather with all and sin- 
 gular Havens, Harbors, Cricks, and Yslands inbayed, and all 
 Islands and Isletts lying within five leagues distance of the 
 Mayne Land opposite and abbutting upon the Premises, or 
 any part thereof, not formerly lawfully granted to any by 
 spetiall name. . . . — Charters and Constitutio7is of the Ufiited 
 States, p. 1273. 
 
 1639. CHARTER OF MAINE. 
 
 And by these Presents for us our heires and successors 
 Doe give graunte and confirme unto the said Sir Fardinando 
 Gorges his heires and assignes All that Parte Purparte and 
 Porcon of the Mayne Lande of New England aforesaid be- 
 ginning att the entrance of Pascataway Harbor and soe to 
 passe upp the same into the River of Newichewanocke and 
 through the same unto the furthest heade thereof and from 
 thence Northeastwards till one hundred and twenty miles 
 bee finished and from Pascataway Harbor mouth aforesaid 
 Northwestwards along the Sea Coasts to Sagadahocke and 
 upp the River thereof to Kynybequy River and through the 
 same unto the heade thereof and into the Lande Northwest- 
 wards untill one hundred and twenty myles bee ended being 
 accompted from the mouth of Sagadahocke and from the 
 period of one hundred and twenty myles aforesaid to crosse 
 over Lande to the one hundred and twenty myles end for- 
 merly reckoned upp into the Lande from Pascataway Harbor 
 through Newichewanocke River and alsoe the Northe halfe of 
 the Isles of Shoales togeather with the Isles of Capawock and 
 Nawtican neere Cape Cod as alsoe all the Islands and Ilelts 
 lyeinge within five leagues of the Mayne all alonge the afore- 
 saide Coasts betweene the aforesaide River of Pascataway and 
 Segadahocke with all the Creekes Havens and Harbors there- 
 unto belonginge and the Revercon and Revercons Remaynder 
 and Remaynders of all and singular the said Landes Rivers 
 and Premisses All which said Part Purpart or Porcon of the 
 Mayne Lande and all and every the Premisses herein before 
 
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 named Wee Doe for us our heires and successors create and 
 incorporate into One Province or Countie And Wee Doe 
 name ordeyne and appoynt that the porcon of the Mayne 
 Lande and Premises aforesaide shall forever hereafter bee 
 called and named The Province or Countie of Mayne and 
 not by any other name or names whatsoever. — Charters and 
 Constitutio7is of the United States^ p. 775. 
 
 1643. PATENT FOR PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS. 
 
 A Tract of Land in the Continent of America aforesaid, 
 called by the Name of the Narraganset-Bay ; bordering North- 
 ward and Northeast on the Patent of the Massachusetts, East 
 and Southeast on Plymouth Patent, South on the Ocean, and 
 on the West and Northwest by the Indians called Nahiggan- 
 neucks, alias Narragansets ; the whole Tract extending about 
 Twenty-five English Miles unto the Pequot River and 
 Country. — Charters a?id Constitutions of the United States, 
 P- 1594., 
 
 1662. CHARTER OF CONNECTICUT. 
 
 And Know Ye further. That We, of Our abundant Grace, 
 certain Knowledge, and mere Motion, have given, granted, 
 and confirmed, and by these Presents for Us, our Heirs and 
 Successors, do give, grant and confirm unto the said Gov- 
 ernor and Company, and their Successors, all that Part of 
 Our Dominions in JVew England in America, bounded on 
 the East by Narragansett- River , commonly called Narragan- 
 sett-Bay, where the said River falleth into the Sea ; and on 
 the North by the Line of the Alassachusctts-Plantation ; and 
 on the 6*^////^ by the Sea; and in Longitude as the Line of 
 the Massachusetts- Colony, running from East to West, That 
 is to say, From the said Narragansett-Bay on the East, to the 
 South Sea on the ]Vest Part, with the Islands thereunto ad- 
 joining, together with all firm Lands, Soils, Grounds, Havens, 
 Ports, Rivers, Waters, Fishings, Mines, Minerals, precious 
 Stones, Quarries, and all and singular other Commodities, 
 Jurisdictions, Royalties, Privi'eges, Franchises, Prehemi- 
 
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 nences, and Hereditaments whatsoever, within the said 
 Tract, Bounds, Lands, and Islands aforesaid, or to them or 
 any of them belonging. To have and to hold the same unto the 
 said Governor and Company, their Successors and Assigns for 
 ever, upon Trust, and for the Use and Benefit of Themselves 
 and their Associates, Freemen of the said Colony, their 
 Heirs and Assigns, to be holden of Us, Our Heirs and Suc- 
 cessors, as of Our Manor of East Greenwich, in free and 
 common Soccage, and not in Capite, nor by Knights Service, 
 yielding and paying therefore to Us, Our Heirs and Suc- 
 cessors, only the Fifth Part of all the Ore of Gold and Silver 
 which from Time to Time, and at all Times hereafter, shall 
 be there gotten, had, or obtained, in Lieu of all Services, 
 Duties, and Demands whatsoever, to be to Us, our Heirs, or 
 Successors therefore, or thereout rendered, made, or paid. — 
 Charters and Constitutions of the United States, pp. 256, 257. 
 
 1663. CHARTER OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROV- 
 IDENCE PLANTATIONS. 
 
 All that parte of our dominiones in New-England, in Amer- 
 ica, conteyneing the Nahantick and Nanhyganset Bay, and 
 countryes and partes adjacent, bounded on the west, or west- 
 erly, to the middle or channel of a river there, commonly 
 called and known by the name of Pawcatuck, alias Pawcaw- 
 tuck river, and soe along the sayd river, as the greater or 
 middle streame thereof reacheth or lyes upp into the north 
 country e, northward, unto the head thereof, and from thence, 
 by a streight lyne drawn due north, untill itt meets with the 
 south lyne of the Massachusetts CoUonie ; and on the north, 
 or northerly, by the aforesayd south or southerly lyne of the 
 Massachusetts Collony or Plantation, and extending towards 
 the east, or eastwardly, three English miles to the east and 
 north-east of the most eastern and north-eastern parts of the 
 aforesayd Narragansett Bay, as the sayd bay lyeth or extend- 
 eth itself from the ocean on the south, or southwardly, unto 
 the mouth of the river which runneth towards the towne of 
 Providence, and from thence along the eastwardly side or 
 
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 banke of the sayd river (higher called by the name of Sea- 
 cunck river), up to the ffalls called Patuckett ffalls, being the 
 most westwardly lyne of Plymouth Collony, and soe from the 
 sayd ffalls, in a streight lyne, due north, untill itt meete with 
 the aforesayd line of the Massachusetts Collony ; and bounded 
 on the south by the ocean : and, in particular, the lands be- 
 longing to the townes of Providence, Pawtuxet, Warvvicke, 
 Misquammacok, alias Pawcatuck, and the rest upon the maine 
 land in the track aforesayd, together with Rhode-Island, 
 Blocke-Island, and all the rest of the islands and banks in the 
 Narragansett Bay, and bordering upon the coast of the tract 
 aforesayd (Ffishers Island only excepted). . . . — Charters and 
 Constitutions of the United States^ p. 1602. 
 
 1663. CHARTER OF CAROLINA. 
 
 All that territory or tract of ground, scituate, lying and be- 
 ing within our dominions of America, extending from the 
 north end of the island called Lucke island, which lieth in 
 the southern Virginia seas, and within six and thirty degrees 
 of the northern latitude, and to the west as far as the south 
 seas, and so southerly as far as the river St. Matthias, which 
 bordereth upon the coast of Florida, and within one and 
 thirty degrees of northern latitude, and so west in a direct 
 line as far as the south seas aforesaid ; together with all and 
 singular ports, harbours, bays, rivers, isles and islets belong- 
 ing to the country aforesaid. . . . — Charters and Constitu- 
 tions of the United States, p. 1383. 
 
 1664 and 1674. GRANT TO JAMES, DUKE OF 
 YORK. 
 
 Know yee that wee for divers good causes and considera- 
 cons us thereunto moving have of our especiall Grace certaine 
 knowledge and meere motion given [and] granted and by these 
 presents for us our heires and successors do give and grant 
 unto our dearest brother James Duke of Yorke his heires and 
 assigns all that part of the maine land of New England begin- 
 
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 ing at a certaine place called or knovvne by the name of St. 
 Croix next adjoyning to New Scotland in America and from 
 thence extending along the sea coast unto a certain place 
 called Petuaquine or Pemaqiiid and so up the River thereof 
 to the furthest head of ye same as it tendeth northwards and 
 extending from thence to the River [of] Kinebequi and so up- 
 wards by the shortest course to the River Canada northward 
 and also all that Island or Islands commonly called by the 
 severall name or names of Matowacks or Loud Island scituate 
 lying and being towards the west of Cape Codd and ye nar- 
 row Higansetts abutting upon the maine land between the 
 two Rivers there called or knowne by the severall names of 
 Conecticutt and Hudsons River together also with the said 
 river called Hudsons River and all the land from the west 
 side of Conecticutt River to ye east side of Delaware Bay 
 and also all those severall Islands called or knowne by the 
 names of Martin's Vineyard and Nantukes otherwise Nan- 
 tuckett. — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, 
 pp. 783, 784. 
 
 1664 and 1674. NEW JERSEY. 
 
 Duke of York's Release of New Jersey, to John 
 
 Lord Berkeley, and Sir George Carteret, 
 
 hath granted unto the said John Lord Berkley and 
 
 Sir George Carteret, their Heirs and Assigns for ever. All 
 that Tract of Land adjacent to New-Efigland, and lying and 
 being to the Westward of Long-Island and Manhitas Island, 
 and bounded on the East part by the main Sea, and part by 
 Hudson' s River, and hath upon the West Delaware Bay or 
 Rivef, and extendeth Southward to the Main Ocean as far as 
 Cape- May at the Mouth oi Delaivare Bay ; and to the North- 
 ward as far as the Northermost Branch of the said Bay or 
 River of Dekuvare, which is forty one Degrees and forty 
 Minutes of Latitude, and crosseth over thence in a strait Line 
 to Hudson s River in forty one Degrees of Latitude ; which 
 said Tract of Land is hereafter to be called by the Name or 
 Names of New Ceaserea or New-Jersey. — Learning and 
 Spicer, Laws of Neiu Jersey, pp. 8-1 1, 46-48. 
 
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 1665. CHARTER OF CAROLINA. 
 
 All that province, territory or tract of land, situate, lying 
 and being within our dominions of America aforesaid ; extend- 
 ing north and eastward, as far as the north end of Currituck 
 river or inlet, upon a strait westerly line to Wyonoak creek, 
 which lies within or about the degrees of thirty-six and thirty 
 minutes, northern latitude ; and so west, in a direct line, as 
 far as the South-Seas ; and south and westward, as far as the 
 degrees of twenty-nine, inclusive, of northern latitude; and 
 so west, in a direct line, as far as the South-Seas; together 
 with all and singular the ports, harbours, bays, rivers and 
 inlets, belonging unto the province or territory aforesaid. . . 
 — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, p. 1390. 
 
 1672. GRANT TO THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. 
 
 We have given, granted and confirmed, and by these 
 presents, for us, our heirs and successors. Do give, grant and 
 confirm, unto the said Governor and Company, and their 
 successors, the sole trade and commerce of all those seas, 
 straits, bays, rivers, lakes, creeks and sounds, in whatsoever 
 latitude they shall be, that lie within the entrance of the 
 straits, commonly called Hudson's Straits, together with all 
 the lands and territories upon the countries, coasts, and con- 
 fines of the seas, bays, lakes, rivers, creeks and sounds afore- 
 said, that are not already actually possessed by or granted to 
 any of our subjects, or possessed by the subjects of any other 
 Christian Prince or State. — Mills, Boundaries of Ontario, 
 P- 155- 
 
 1 68 1. CHARTER OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
 
 Doe give and Grant unto the said William Penn, his 
 Heires and Assignes, all that Tract or Parte of Land in 
 A??ieriea, with all the Islands therein conteyned, as the same 
 is bounded on the East by Delaware River, from twelve 
 miles distance Northwards of Neia Castle Towne unto the 
 three and fortieth degree of Northerne Latitude, if the said 
 
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 River doeth extende so farre Northwards ; But if the said 
 River shall not extende soe farre Northward, then by 
 the said River so farr as it doth extend ; and from 
 the head of the said River, the Easterne Bounds are to bee 
 determined by a Meridian Line, to bee drawne from the 
 head of the said River, unto the said three and fortieth 
 Degree. The said Lands to extend westwards five degrees in 
 longitude,to bee computed, from the said Easterne Bounds; 
 and the said Lands to bee bounded on the North by the begin- 
 ning of the three and fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, 
 and on the South by a Circle drawne at twelve miles distance 
 from New Castle Northward and Westward unto the begin- 
 ning of the fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, and then by 
 a streight Line Westward to the Limitt of Longitude above- 
 mentioned. — Charters and Constitutions of the United States, 
 pp. 1509, 1 5 10. 
 
 1691. CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 
 
 Wee doe by these presents for Us Our Heires and Succes- 
 sors Will and Ordeyne that the Territories and Collonyes com- 
 only called or known by the Names of the CoUony of the 
 Massachusetts Bay and Collony of New Plymouth the Province 
 of Main the Territorie called Accadia or Nova Scotia and all 
 that Tract of Land lying betweene the said Territori/^/ves of 
 Nova Scotia and the said Province of Main be Erected Lhiited 
 and Incorporated And Wee doe by these presents Unite 
 Erect and Incorporate the same into one reall Province by 
 the Name of Our Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New 
 England And of Ouf especial Grace certaine knowledge and 
 meer mocon Wee have given and granted and by these pres- 
 ents for Us Our Heires and Successors doe give and grant 
 unto Our good Subjects the Inhabitants of Our said Province 
 or Territory of the Massachusetts Bay and their Successors all 
 that parte of New England in America lying and extending 
 from the greate River comonly called Monomack als Merri- 
 mack on the Northpart and from three Miles Northward of 
 the said River to the Atlantick or Western Sea or Ocean on 
 the South part And all the Lands and Hereditaments whatso- 
 ever lying within the limitts aforesaid and extending as farr as 
 
the Outermost Points or Promontories of Land called Cape 
 Cod and Cape Mallabar North and vSouth and in Latitude 
 Breadth and in Length and Longitude of and within all the 
 Breadth and Compass aforesaid throughout the Main Land 
 there from the said Atlantick or Western Sea and Ocean on 
 the East parte towards the South Sea or Westward as far as 
 Our CoUonyes of Rhode Island Connecticutt and the Narra- 
 gansett Countrey all alsoe all that part or porcon of Main 
 Land beginning at the Entrance of Pescata way Harbour and 
 soe to pass upp the same into the River of Newickewannock 
 and through the same into the furthest head thereof and from 
 thence northwestward till One Hundred and Twenty Miles 
 be finished and from Piscata way Harbour mouth aforesaid 
 North-Eastward along the Sea Coast to Sagadehock and from 
 the Period of One Hundred and Twenty Miles aforesaid to 
 crosse over Land to the One Hundred and Twenty Miles be- 
 fore reckoned up into the Land from Piscataway Harbour 
 through Newickawannock River and alsoe the North halfe of 
 the Isles and Shoales together with the Isles of Cappawock 
 and Nantukett near Cape Cod aforesaid and alsoe [all] Lands 
 and Hereditaments lying and being in the Countrey and Ter- 
 ritory comonly called Accadia or Nova Scotia And all those 
 Lands and Hereditaments lying and extending betweene the 
 said Countrey or Territory of Nova Scotia and the said River 
 of Sagadahock or any part thereof And all Lands Grounds 
 Places Soiles Woods and Wood grounds Havens Ports Rivers 
 Waters and other Hereditaments and premisses whatsoever 
 lying within the said bounds and limitts aforesaid and every 
 part and parcell thereof and alsoe all Islands and Isletts lying 
 within tenn Leagues directly opposite to the Main Land 
 within the said bounds and all Mines and Mineralls as well 
 Royall Mines of Gold and Silver as other Mines and Miner- 
 alls whatsoever in the said Lands and premisses or any parte 
 thereof To Have and to hold the said Territories Tracts 
 Countreys Lands Hereditaments and all and singular other 
 the premisses with their and every of their Appurtences to Our 
 said Subjects the Inhabitants of Our said Province of the 
 Massachusetts Bay in New England and their Successors to 
 their only proper use and behoofe for evermore To be holden 
 of Us Our Heires and Successors as of Our Mannor of East 
 
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 Greenwich in the County of Kent by Fealty only in free and 
 Comon Soccage yeilding and paying therefore yearly to Us 
 Our Heires and Successors the Fifth part of all Gold and 
 Silver Oar and pretious Stones which shall from time to time 
 and at all tinies hereafter happen to be found gotten had and 
 obteyned in any of the said Lands and premisses or within 
 any part thereof. — Charters and Constitutions of the Ufiited 
 States, pp. 947, 948. 
 
 1 71 7. EXTRACT FROM THE REGISTERS OF THE 
 KING'S COUNCIL OF STATE annexing Illinois to 
 Louisiana. 
 
 The King in Council, having under consideration the 
 letters patent in form of an edict of the month of August last, 
 establishing a commercial company under the name of the 
 Western Company (Compagnie d'Occident) ; together with 
 those of the 14th September, 1712, granted to Sieur Crozat, 
 and being of opinion that it would be conducive to the ser- 
 vice of the King, and of use and advantage to the Western 
 Company, to extend the Government of the Province of 
 Louisiana, by adding to it the country of the savages, called 
 the Illinois. The report being read and everything consid- 
 ered, His Majesty in Council, on the advice of the Duke of 
 Orleans, his uncle, Regent, has united and incorporated the 
 country of the savages to the Government of the Province of 
 Louisiana, desires and intends that the said Western Com- 
 pany shall enjoy the lands comprised under the name of the 
 said country in the same way that it ought to enjoy those 
 granted to it by the said letters patent in the month of 
 August last, and that the commandants, officers, soldiers, 
 habitants and others who are or who may be in the said 
 country will recognize the authority of the General in com- 
 mand of Louisiana, and yield obedience to him, without any 
 kind of opposition, on pain of disobedience. Done at the 
 King's Council of State, in the presence of His Majesty, 
 held at Paris, on the twenty-seventh of September, 1717. 
 
 (Signed) Phelippeaux. 
 
 And then follows the words : Compared with the origi- 
 
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 nal by our esquire, councillor — secretary of the King, House 
 and Crown of France and of his finances. 
 
 (Signed) Le Noir, with paraphe. 
 
 On the 19th June, 17 18, the King notified the Marquis 
 de Vaudreuil, Lieutenant-Governor of New France, le Sieur 
 Begou, Intendant, and the officers of the superior Council at 
 Quebec, to read and publish the letters patent in form of edict 
 of August, 17 17, establishing the Western Company, and the 
 arret of the Council of the 27th September, 1717, incorporat- 
 ing the country of the Illinois with Louisiana ; and ordering 
 them to be kept and observed according to their form and 
 tenour, notwithstanding any edicts, declarations, arrets, ordi- 
 nances, rules, usuage, and other things contrary thereto, from 
 which we have derogated and do by these presents derogate : 
 (Signed) Louis. 
 
 And lower down : by the King, the Duke of Orleans, 
 Regent, present, 
 
 (Signed) Phelippeaux, with paraphe. 
 
 Edits, ordonnaiices Royaux, declarations, et errcts du 
 conseil d^etat du roi. 
 
 Registered by the Clerk of the Superior Council of Que- 
 bec, Oct. 2, 1 7 19. — Lindsey, Boundaries of Ontario, p. 210. 
 Note. 
 
 1732. CHARTER OF CxEORGIA. 
 
 Know ye, that we greatly desiring the happy success of the 
 said corporation, for their further encouragement in accom- 
 plishing so excellent a work have of our aforesaid grace, cer- 
 tain knowledge and mere motion, given and granted by these 
 presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do give and grant 
 to the said corporation and their successors under the reserva- 
 tion, limitation and declaration, hereafter expressed, seven 
 undivided parts, the whole in eight equal parts to be divided, 
 of all those lands, countrys and territories, situate, lying and 
 being in that part of South-Carolina, in America, which lies 
 from the most northern part of a stream or river there, com- 
 monly called the Savannah, all along the sea coast to the 
 
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 southward, unto the most southern stream of a certain other 
 great water or river called the Altamaha, and westerly from 
 the heads of the said rivers respectively, in direct lines to the 
 south seas ; and all that share, circuit and precinct of land, 
 within the said boundaries, with the islands on the sea, lying 
 opposite to the eastern coast of the said lands, within twenty 
 leagues of the same, which are not inhabited already, or set- 
 tled by any authority derived from the crown of Great- 
 Britain : together with all the soils, grounds, havens, ports, 
 gulfs and bays, mines, as well royal mines of gold and silver, 
 as other minerals, precious stones, quarries, woods, rivers, 
 waters, fishings, as well royal fishings of whale and sturgeon 
 as other fishings, pearls, commodities, jurisdictions, royalties, 
 franchises, privileges and pre-eminences within the said fron- 
 tiers and precincts thereof and thereunto, in any sort belong- 
 ing or appertaining, and which we by our letters patent may 
 or can grant, and in as ample manner and sort as we may or 
 any of our royal progenitors have hitherto granted to any 
 company, body politic or corporate, or to any adventurer or 
 adventurers, undertaker or undertakers, of any discoveries, 
 plantations or trafiic, of, in, or unto any foreign parts Avhatso- 
 ever; and in as legal and ample manner, as if the same were 
 herein particularly mentioned and expressed: to have, hold, 
 possess and enjoy, the said seven undivided parts, the whole 
 into eight equal parts, to be divided as aforesaid, of all and 
 singular the lands, countries and territories, with all and 
 singular other the premises herein before by these presents 
 granted or mentioned, or intended to be granted to them, the 
 :said cot-poration, and their successors forever, for the better 
 support of the said colony, to be holden of us, our heirs and 
 successors, as of our honour of Hampton-court, in our county 
 of Middlesex in free and common soccage, and not in capite, 
 yielding, and paying therefor to us, our heirs and successors 
 yearly forever, the sum of four shillings for every hundred 
 acres of the said lands, which the said corporation shall grant, 
 demise, plant or settle ; the said payment not to commence 
 or to be made, until ten years after such grant, demise, 
 planting or settling ; and to be answered and paid to us, our 
 heirs and successors, in such manner and in such species of 
 money or notes, as shall be current in payment, by proclama- 
 
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 tion from time to time, in our said province of South-Caro- 
 lina. — Charters and Constiiiitioiis of the United States, p. 373. 
 
 1764. NEW YORK AND NEW HAMPSHIRE. 
 
 1764. Order in Council fixing the Boundary between New 
 York and New Hampshire. 
 
 (l.s.) At the Court at St. James the 20th Day of July 
 1764. Present. 
 
 The King's most Excellent Majesty. 
 [And nine members of Council.] 
 
 Whereas there was this Day read at the Board, a Report 
 made by the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee 
 of Council for Plantation affairs dated the 17th of this In- 
 stant, upon considering a Representation from the Lords 
 Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, relative to the 
 Disputes that have some years Subsisted between the Prov- 
 inces of New Hampshire and New York concerning the 
 Boundary Line between those Provinces. His Majesty tak- 
 ing the same into consideration was pleased with the advice 
 of his privy Council to approve of what is therein proposed, 
 and doth accordingly hereby Order and Declare the Western 
 Banks of the River Connecticut, from where it enters the 
 Province of the Massachusets Bay, as far North as the forty 
 fifth Degree of Northern Latitude, to be the Boundary Line 
 between the said two Province of New Hampshire and New 
 York. Whereof the respective Governors and Commanders 
 in Chief of His Majesty's said Provinces of New Hampshire 
 and New York for the time being and all others whom it may 
 Concern are to take notice of his Majesty's Pleasure hereby 
 signified and Govern themselves accordingly. — Boundaries of 
 the State of New York, Vol. I., pp. 82, Z^i- 
 
 1774. THE ''QUEBEC ACT." 
 
 An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Gov- 
 ernment of the Province of Quebec in North America. 
 
 Whereas His Majesty, by His Royal Proclamation, bear- 
 ing Date the Seventh Day of October, in the Third Year of 
 
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 His Reign, thought fit to declare the Provisions which had 
 been made in respect to certain Countries, Territories and 
 Islands in America, ceded to His Majesty by the definitive 
 Treaty of Peace, concluded at Paris on the Tenth Day of 
 February One thousand seven hundred and sixty three : And 
 whereas by the Arrangements made by the said Royal Pro- 
 clamation, a very large Extent of Country, within which 
 there were several Colonies and Settlements of the Subjects 
 of France, who claimed to remain therein under the Faith of 
 the said Treaty, was left, without any Provision being made 
 for the Administration of Civil Government therein ; . . . 
 be it enacted. 
 
 I. That all the Territories, Islands and Countries in North 
 America, " belonging to the Crown of Great Britain, bounded 
 on the South by a line from the Bay of Chaleurs, along the 
 High Lands which divide the Rivers that empty themselves 
 into the River Saint Lawrence from those which fall into the 
 Sea, to a Point in Forty five Degrees of Northern Latitude, 
 on the Eastern Bank of the River Connecticut, keeping the 
 same Latitude directly West, through the Lake Chafuplain, 
 until in the same Latitude, it meets the River Saint Law- 
 rence ; from thence up the Eastern Bank of the said River to 
 the Lake Ontario ; thence through the Lake Ontario, and the 
 River com.monly called Niagara ; and thence along by the 
 Eastern and South Eastern Bank of Lake Frie, following the 
 said Bank, until the same shall be intersected by the North- 
 ern Boundary, granted by the Charter of the Province of 
 Pensylvania, in case the same shall be so intersected ; and 
 from thence along the said Northern and Western Boundaries 
 of the said Province, until the said Western Boundary strike 
 the Ohio ; but in case the said Bank of the said Lake shall 
 not be found to be so intersected, then following the said 
 Bank until it shall arrive at that Point of the said Bank which 
 shall be nearest to the North Western Angle of the said Prov- 
 ince of Pensylvania, and thence by a right Line to the said 
 Northwestern Angle of the said Province ; and thence along 
 the Western Boundary of the said Province until it strike ' ' 
 the River Ohio ; and along the Bank of the said River, 
 Westward to the Banks of the Mississippi, and Northward to 
 the Southern Boundary of the Territory granted to the Mer- 
 
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 chants Adventurers of E tiglaji d ir2idmg to Hudson's Bay; and 
 also all such Territories, Islands and Countries which have, 
 since the Tenth of February, One thousand seven hundred 
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