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In the meantime, however, the Province of New Brunswick had been 
erected, and it was Governor Carleton, who, under date of June 21, 
1785, answered as follows : —(State Papers, 95.) 
In consequence of a letter from your Excellency to the Governor of Nova 
Scotia, which has been transmitted to His Majesty’s Ministers, respecting the 
boundary between this Province and the State of Massachusetts Bay, I have 
it in charge to inform your Excellency that the Great St. Croix, called Schoo- 
dick by the Indians, was not only considered by the Court of Great Britain 
as the River intended and agreed upon by the Treaty to form a part of that 
Boundary, but a numerous body of the loyal refugees immediately after the 
Peace, built the town of St. Andrews on the Eastern Bank thereof; and in 
fact it is the only River on that side of the Province of either such magni- 
tude or extent as could have led to the idea of proposing it as a limit between 
two large and spacious countries. 
In this letter Governor Carleton had the backing of the authorities 
in England, for on March 8 of that year (1785), Lord Sydney wrote 
Governor Parr that His Majestys Government were determined to 
maintain the Scoodic as the boundary. Governor Carleton’s letter was 
transmitted by Governor Hancock to Congress, and much correspond- 
ence followed with no practical result. 
On April 21, 1785, Jay, secretary for foreign affairs, proposed to 
Congress, a settlement by a commission to be appointed by the two gov- 
ernments, but the suggestion was not accepted. In that year too, the 
question of ownership of some of the islands became prominent, a 
subject we shall notice later. No further steps in the matter appear 
to have been taken until 1789, when James Boyd petitioned Congress 
to be put in possession of lands granted him east of the Scoodic, averring 
that for his devotion to the cause of the United States he had to flee 
from the country. Finally in 1790 President Washington transmitted 
to Congress the documents here cited, with a special message recom- 
mending that steps be taken to adjust the matter. Nothing, however, 
was done until 1794, when, after much preliminary negotiation, it was 
determined by the two governments to leave the determination of the 
River St. Croix to a commission and (1794) Jay’s Treaty was signed, of 
which a part reads as follows : — 
Whereas doubts have arisen what river was truly intended under the name 
of the River St. Croix, mentioned in the said treaty of peace, and forming a 
part of the boundary therein described ; that question shall be referred to the 
final decision of commissioners to be appointed in the following manner, viz.: 
The said Commissioners shall, by a declaration under their hands 
and seals, decide what river is the River St. Croix, intended by the treaty. 
The said declaration shall contain a description of the said river, and shall 
particularize the latitude and longitude of its mouth and of its source. 5 
And both parties agree to consider such decision final and conclusive, so that 
