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they took, as indeed they could hardly avoid doing, Chipman’s view 
of the identity of the River St. Croix of the treaty with the River St. 
Croix of Alexander’s grant and hence of Champlain. 
At the Boston meeting of August, 1797, it was announced that 
the surveys of the rivers in dispute could not be completed for some 
months, and hence the Board adjourned to meet at Providence, R.L., 
in June, 1798. At that date the surveys were not yet ready and the 
meeting was adjourned until September, when new and very voluminous 
arguments were filed by the agents. Sullivan abandons some of the 
minor points of his earlier argument but still holds to his main conten- 
tion which he supports by a variety of devious arguments. He attempts 
to explain the settlements on Bone Island as a trading station of 
De Razilly and combats every point in the argument of his opponent. 
Chipman is on surer ground and his arguments are much more direct 
and convincing. The map of the region in dispute did not reach 
Providence until Oct. 15, though its general features must have been 
known much earlier, and on the 26th of October the commission ren- 
dered its verdict which was as follows: 
Declaration. By Thomas Barclay, David Howell and Egbert Benson, 
commissioners appointed in pursuance of the fifth article of the treaty of 
Amity, Commerce, and Navigation between His Britannic Majesty and the 
United States of America, finally to decide the question, ‘‘ What River was 
“truly intended under the name of the River Saint Croix mentioned in the 
“treaty of peace between His Majesty and the United States and forming a 
“part of the Boundary therein described.” 
DECLARATION. 
We the said Commissioners having been sworn ‘‘ impartially to examine 
and decide the said Question according to such evidence as should respec- 
tively be laid before us on the part of the British Government and of the 
United States,” and having heard the evidence which hath been laid before 
us by the Agent of His Majesty and the Agent of the United States respec- 
tively appointed and authorized to manage the business on behalf of the 
respective governments. HAVE DECIDED and hereby DO DECIDE the River 
hereinafter particularly described and mentioned to be the River truly in- 
tended under the name of the River Saint Croix in the said treaty of peace 
and forming a part of the Boundary therein described. That is to say : — 
The Mouth of the said River is in Passamaquoddy Bay at a point of land 
called Joe’s point about one mile northward from the northern part of Saint 

the Commissioners to view it as being the Island described by LEscarbot.’” 
This seems to show that at first Sullivan really considered the Magaguadavic 
as the St. Croix of Champlain; later he stated more than once (for instance 
in his letter in the Bulletin of the New York Public Library, II., 244) that this 
Was not important. He persisted in claiming the Magaguadavic to the very 
end of the Commission’s work, but it is not possible to believe that, after the 
evidence was all in, he really believed as an historian in his own contention 
as an advocate. 
