(354) 
dence for the defence was not at hand, nor easily procurable. 
But the result was none the less a fatal mistake.* For it 
subjected to the call of a few land speculators the whole 
power of the local executive for the enforcement of unjust, 
* Mag. Am. History, 23: 143-5. 
tation, etc.,” of the N. Y. Conncil, in June, 1763, N. Y. Hist. Soc. Pub., 
1869: 240), which nee the Crown never disapproved of, but uniformly 
adhered to for near a century afterward, until the order of annexation in 
1764. Even the Duke did not try to change it. eee Doc., 3 : 231, 236. 
1776.) 
zi e 20- et line sid Ais by the bade aaheie “se ecco aene ‘hi 
c 
on October 7, 1691, granted her a new charter as a oo ) Pro ae ** ex- 
tending towards the South Sea westwards as far as our colonies of Rhode 
far westward as those three provinces extend; adopting her long recog- 
nized westward extent as co-terminous with Connecticut. (Smith’s N. ¥Y., 
1: 285; Hutchinson’s Mass., 2: 7.) 
The Duke of York having meantime, in 1685, ascended the throne as James 
IL., his individual title was merged in the Crown ; the charters of 1664 and 
York 
part of the Crown domain (Colonial Doc., 3: 322, ie ; Brodhead’s Hist., 2: 
424; Benton’s Vt.. 63, 76). In 1688 he pie the whole province to New 
England, to form the ‘‘ Dominion of New par in America,” under 
Andros as Governor. (1 Colonial Laws, 216, 221; Colonial Doc., 3: 537; 
Brodhead’s Hist., 2: 447, 500.) Soon after, during the English ecoldtion. 
the Dominion, contrary to King William’s intent, was disrupted by revolu- 
ted the 
tion and t ‘ual secession of its membe King accep 
situation and in 1689 appointed Sloughter soreugre of the “ province of New 
territories an di ereon,’”? with designated 
boundaries (Colonial Doc., us doubtless reconstitutin, 
623); 
Province as it previously Rares with its Eastern limits as defined by the 
Nicolls Commission. 
ore than 70 years afterward, Lt. Gov. Colden in support of New York’s 
extent of the three, can only mean as far as the three getend westerly. Mr. 
Duane’s contention would moreover limit the province to the meridian of 
