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Parr’s replies were most friendly, but he stated that in Nova Scotia the 
Seoodic was considered as the boundary. John Allan’s letters were 
apparently transmitted to Congress, for on Jan. 26, 1784, a letter from 
John Allan and other papers were transmitted by that body to the 
Governor of Massachusetts with a resolution recommending that the 
subject be investigated and if found as stated a representation should 
be made to Nova Scotia. On July 7 the Massachusetts legislature 
resolved to appoint a committee of three to investigate the subject, and, 
if they find such encroachments have been made, that “they make 
representations thereof to the Governor of Nova Scotia and request 
him, in a friendly manner, and as a proof of that disposition for peace 
and harmony which should subsist between neighbouring States to 
recall from off the said territory the said subjects of his Britannic 
Majesty.” Accordingly the Governor appointed Generals Lincoln 
and Knox with Mr. George Partridge (the latter prevented by illness 
from serving), who proceeded to Passamaquoddy, made inquiries and 
returned their report to the Governor of Massachusetts Oct. 19, 1784. 
It is printed in full in the State Papers, I., 91. They found consider- 
able settlements at St. Andrews as reported ; they then proceed as 
follows, formulating what afterwards became the American claim to 
the Magaguadavic as the boundary. 
There are three very considerable rivers which empty themselves into the 
bay of Passamaquoddy, which is from five to seven leagues wide. The eastern 
river falls into the bay about a league from the head of it, and perpendicular 
to the eastern side ; the middle river falls into the bay far on the westerly 
side of the head of it, and in a direction parallel therewith; the western 
river falls into the bay about six leagues from the head of it, on the westerly 
side, and nearly perpendicular to it; all of which, in late British maps, are 
called St. Croix. The first is, by the Indians, called Maggacadava, the second 
Schoodick, and the third Cobbscook. 
By every information the subscribers could obtain, on an inquiry of the 
Indians and others, the eastern river was the original St. Croix. This is 
about three leagues east of St. Andrews, where the British inhabitants have 
made a settlement. Soon after the subscribers had received their commis- 
sion, they wrote to Mr. Jay, requesting him to give them information whether 
the commissioners for negotiating the peace confined themselves, in tracing 
the boundaries of the United States, to any particular map, and if any one 
to what ? Since their return, they received his answer, mentioning that 
Mitchell’s map was the only one that the commissioners used, and on that 
they traced the boundaries agreed to. This, in the opinion of the subscribers, 
is a fact which must facilitate an equitable decision of the matter; though 
Mitchell’s map is not accurate, at least in the description of the eastern parts 
of the State. He has described but two, instead of three rivers, which empty 
themselves into the Bay of Passamaquoddy. The eastern of these he has 
placed at the head of the bay, near the center of it, and calls it St. Croix. 
The western river he has called by the name of Passamaquoddy. Hence it is 
