1030 MISCELLANEOUS. 



in New England aforesaid may be brought vnder such a forme of 

 Government as may put them in a better Condicon of defence and 

 considering aswell the granting vnto them as vnto Our Subjects in 

 the said Collony of the Massachusetts Bay Our Royall Charter with 

 reasonable Powers and Priviledges will much tend not only to the 

 safety but to the Flourishing estate of Our Subjects in the said parts 

 of New England and alsoe to the advanceing of the ends for which 

 the said Plantacons were at first encouraged of Our especiall Grace 

 certaine knowledge and meer Mocon have willed and ordeyned and 

 Wee doe by these presents for Vs Our Heires and Successors Will and 

 Ordeyne that the Territories and Collonyes comonly called or known 

 by the Names of the Collony 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 

 Territorifon'es of Nova Scotia and the said Province of Main be 

 Erected Vnited and Incorporated And Wee doe by these presents 

 Vnite Erect and Incorporate the same into one real! Province by the 

 Name of Our Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England 

 And of Our especial Grace certaine knowledge and meer mocon Wee 

 have given and granted and by these presents for Vs Our Heires and 

 Successors doe give and grant vnto 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 North part 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 whatsoever 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 South 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 toVards the South Sea or Westward as far as Our 

 Collonyes of Rhode Island Connecticut and the Marragansett * 

 Countrey all f alsoe all that part or porcon of Main Land beginning 

 at the Entrance of Pescata way Harbour and soe to pass vpp the same 

 into the River of Newickewannock and through the same into the 

 furthest head thereof and from thence Northwestward till One Hun- 

 dred 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 before 

 reckoned vp into the Land from Piscataway Harbour through 

 Newickawannock River and alsoe the North halfe of the Isles and 

 Shoals together with the Isles of Cappawock and Nantukett near 

 Cape Cod aforesaid and alsoe [all f] Lands and Hereditaments 

 lying and being in the Countrey and Territory 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 whatso- 



* Narragansett. 



f In printed copies this is ' the,' 1 but the omission in the original seems better 

 supplied as above. 



