(351) 
under their prior grants.* But in 1769, numerous suits were 
brought upon the New York grants to evict the earlier settlers 
from their homes honestly acquired from New Hampshire, 
and practically to confiscate all the improvements made under 
*N. H. State Papers, 26: pp. vi-viii. Williams’ Hist. Vt. 2: 17, 1809. 
on the mainland, should run ‘‘ from ¢he west side of Greenwich Bay Sagi 20 
miles east of the Hudson) ¢wenty miles northerly up into the country; a 
after, as agreed between the Dutch and New Haven ,; provided that said ae 
come not within ro miles of Hudson’s River,’ and reserving also to the 
: D : 
Holland.’? (Brodhead's Hist., 1. 519, 621, 654); Hazard’s State Papers 
: 169. 
The line thus agreed on, though not complete or exact, limited the Dutch 
to from ten to twenty miles east of the Hudson in the most important part 
northwards, “ was a virtual abandonment of any claim to lands west of the 
Connecticut river’? beyond 20 miles at most east of the Hudson, and along 
the whole New England lineextending northwards to the limit of the Mass- 
upon the recapture of the province in 1673, this treaty is again referred to as 
fixing the boundary upon New England. (Colonial Doc., 1: 609, 611; 2: 
228, 609. Brodhead’s Hist., ox a Bancroft’s Hist. U. S., 2: 295-297 
(map). ist. Y. yt 35-38. H. Hall’s Vt., ve 483, 484. 
Hazard’s State Pap., 2: 549; O’ ates sN. . 277. Regent’s Rept. on 
Bounds., 1857; pp. 38, 39. 
England did not ratify the treaty because the Crown was unwilling 
thereby to admit that the Dutch in New Netherland had any right at all. 
hey were regarded as intruders. But the States General never withdrew 
of 1628 was in fact of much less cene thee was a by this treaty ; for 
that oe referred to th mber 3, 1620, when 
the ‘‘actual possessions” of the few Dutch adc eae the Hudson were 
far short of the treaty line. (1 Hutchinson, 160.) From every point of view, 
nded at least to the 20-mile line east of the Hudson, as the extreme limit 
of the ‘‘actual possessions’’ of the Dutch, which was consequently the ex- 
treme eastern limit also of the lawful jurisdiction of the province of New 
York. 
