(350) 
Though the Order of 1764 annexing the disputed district 
to New York was unwelcome to the settlers, no trouble 
would have arisen had they been left unmolested in the 
possession of their titles and of the improvements made 
1: 1, 160; N. Y. Hist. Soc. Pub., 1869: 345, 361.) These “actual posses- 
ee of the Dutch were all that the Crown after their capture had lawful 
nvey. 
The charter was, however, a mek of the project to surprise and capture 
these Dutch possessions, and to “replace”? New Netherland by Mew York, 
under the proprietary pecan of the Duke. (Denton’s ‘Brief Descrip- 
tion, etc.,”” in Gowan’s Bib, Am. 1670; J. Miller’s ‘‘ New York,” 1675 ; Brod- 
“actual possessions” were not known, they were not defined in the charter, 
but were naturally left to be determined by the Royal boundary Commission 
sent out for that purpose with the expeditio 
On Stuyvesant’s surrender, September, 1666 the “actual possessions ’’ of 
the Dutch, being all that the Duke of York could acquire by his oe as 
against the charters of Massachusetts and Connecticut, the easterly boundary 
of those ‘actual possessions” was the easterly limit of the Duxe’s province 
of New York. Regents’ Bound. Rept. 1886, Sen. Doc., 71: 405. 
The easterly line of the Dutch in 166g. When James I. on Nov. 3, 1620, 
granted to the Council of Plymouth all the lands ‘‘ from Sea to Sea” ee 
tween the goth and the 48th Laine except those “‘ actually possessed or in- 
habited by some Christian Prince or State,’? no Dutch Colony had yet been 
eral, granted in October, 1614, giving it a monopoly of trade with New 
Netherland for four years. (Jaques in Doc. Hist. N. Y., 4: 15-17; Brod- 
head’s Hist., 1: 59-66, 134-8, 150; Trumball’s Conn., 1: 546 
The first peas at ‘colonizat tion by the Dutch was through the West 
overnor Stuyvesant and the representatives of the ‘‘ United Colo- 
nies of New England’’—a confederation ean din 1634 for mutual protec- 
tion and rare (Bancroft’s Hist. U. S., 1: 420-422.) 
By this treaty it was agreed that “the oe ds and limits between the 
United eR eees and the Dutch ” should cross Long Island at Oyster Bay; and 
