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of importance beyond advising the agents of the two governments to 
proceed without delay to have an accurate survey made of the two 
rivers in dispute. The commission then adjourned to St. Andrews, 
where all of the commissioners met with the two agents and the secre- 
tary on the 4th of that month (1796). The agents filed with the com- 
mission their claims on behalf of their respective governments, Mr. 
Sullivan claiming the Magaguadavic as the St. Croix, and Mr. Chipman 
claiming the Scoodic. These preliminary claims were brief preliminary 
documents, without any summary of the evidence, which, however, was 
presented in abundance later. As to the documents in the case, it may 
be said here that the voluminous arguments and the minutes of the com- 
mission have never been published, nor are likely to be, but they are 
preserved in manuscript, of which several copies were made and. of 
which all apparently exist. In the preparation of this paper I have 
had the great privilege of the use of the nearly complete set in the 
possession of Rev. W. O. Raymond, who has, with the greatest gener- 
osity, placed them all unreservedly at my disposal. They are the 
copies originally belonging to Ward Chipman. Another set, that 
belonging to Sullivan,! is in the State Department at Washington ; 
another set, apparently complete and originally belonging to Barclay,’ 
is in the library of the Maine Historical Society, while another set is 
in the Public Record Office, London, and still another appears to be 
in the State Library at Augusta.* A complete set of these documents 
consists of eight folio volumes of carefully written manuscript. In 
the references which follow I shall cite them as “ Boundary Ms.” 
During their session at St. Andrews the commission transacted 
much routine business in connection with organization, the surveys 
to be made, etc., and also proceeded in a body to view both rivers, 
the Magaguadavic and the Scoodic, on which occasions the respective 
agents pointed out the localities which they respectively identified as 
the Isle St. Croix described by Champlain, which located the River 
St. Croix. They also took the testimony of a number of Indians as 
to their knowledge of the River St. Croix, and as to their traditions 
relating to the early French settlement; and the testimony of the white 
settlers as to the identity of the River St. Croix known to them was 
also taken. These depositions, while they must be used with caution, 
have some importance to our local history ; some of them have been 
published by Kilby in his “ Eastport and Passamaquoddy,” but the 
1 As shown by his letter given by Moore, 31. 
2 As shown by Burrage in his ‘“ St. Croix Commission.’’ 
# This set is however not one of the original sets, but is a copy from those 
in the State Department at Washington, made for the Maine Government in 
1827, as shown by a letter in the State Papers, VI. 932. 
Sec. IL, 1900. 16. 

