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1,500,000 acres (besides confirmatory and military grants) 
including the tracts claimed by Columbia. About 500,000 
acres more, previously granted by New Hampshire patents, 
and in part occupied, were granted by Governors Moore and 
Colden prior to 1767. These and subsequent grants by New 
York Vermont claimed to be null and void.* 
*NOTE I. THE EASTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE PROVINCE OF NEW 
YORE; THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS 
more than a century prior to 1764, jurisdiction of the district west of 
the Connecticut River to a line twenty miles east of the FTudson, bad b 
generally considered and treated as belonging to the New England oe 
rom which its settlers had co (Macauley, Hist. , 57, 1829 
Colonial Doc., ; 37: 224; 8: 330. Cartwright to Clarendon, N 
ist. Soc. Collection, 1869: 86.) With a possible slight exception near 
e 
actually settled, occupied or inhabited by New York or by the Dutch. (Gov. 
on, Colonial Doc., 8: 381. H. Hall’s Vermont, 486.) 
Gov. Clinton’s claim of jurisdiction eastward to the Connecticut River, 
was based on the Charter of Charles I. to the Duke of York, in 1664, renewed 
of Delaware Bay.’’ (Colonial Doc., 2: 295; Broadhead Hist., 2: 651.) 
This description, it was claimed, conveyed to the Duke all the land be- 
tween the two rivers. 
But the Lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantations, who administered 
Pasar eta Heported in 2757, that this a description ‘is so in Eanes and 
defectiv: it astot 
eet intended to be granted.’? (Colonial Doc., 7: 223, 224; Phele 
oration, Bennington, 1891, pp. 19-23; N. H. State Papers, 10: 259-261 ; 
Williams Hist. Vt., 2: 15.) 
The last ee does not convey any definite tract of country; nor is it of 
itself a boundary e itencloses nothing. Itseems purposely to omit grant- 
ing the lands beten ‘the two rivers,’ which would naturally have been ex- 
pressed, if inten 
There was abu ndant reason for theomission. For the Crown had already 
granted to the Massachusetts and Connecticut colonies in 1628 and 1662, that 
whole district from the Atlantic to the Pacific, pies. north three miles 
eyond ‘‘any and every part of Merrimack river’’; that is, nearly to the 
latitude of Whitehall. (See location of the “ Endicott” stone, at Weirs’ in 
1652 ; N. H. Hist. Soc. Collections, 4 : 194-200. 1834; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., 
18: 400; Amer. Antiq. Soc., 7: 15. he Massachusetts charter EXCEPTED 
“such lands as [on Nov. 3, sae 0] were actually heed or inhabited by 
any Christian Prince or State.’’ (Hazard St. Pap., 1: 239, 604; Hutchinson 
