(357) 
and of distrust of the New York Courts, that none of New 
York’s subsequent overtures of peace, of amnesty, and of 
confirmation of titles could prevail on them to put themselves 
again in her power, by submitting voluntarily to her authority 
or to the jurisdiction of her courts. It thus closed the doors 
548.) And in 1757 the report of the Lords of Trade, acting upon the com- 
plaints of Governor Hardy, of New York, recommended that the ae 
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Hall’s Vt., 38); epi aa that New Hampshire was Veousidered ae treated 
by the Lords of Trade and other Crown officers as extending westward, like 
Massachusetts, to within 20 miles of the Hudson on the westerly line as run 
in 1740-1741. 
The same report, in view of the defective description of the bounds 
of the provinces in the charters, says that the partition line should be 
determined ‘‘upon eames of the actual and a ncient possession ‘A 
both”; that they had therefore ‘‘ had recourse to such papers in our © 
might show the actual aad ee possession, . . . and as it appears in 
York and paneer the report recommends the 20-mile line of division. 
maps, from 1688 to ce including Mitchell’s, “the most 
veys inthe Plantation Office, show the limit of New York to be a short 
distance east of the Hudson, and New England with New Hampshire ex- 
tending westward to Lake Champlain and thence southerly to Long Island 
Sound. (See H. Hall’s Vt., 50-53 and frontispiece ; Bancroft’s Hist. U. S., 
2: 297; same description of bounds in Douglas’ N. Am., 2: 230. 1755.) 
From the above it Pema appears that at the time of the capture of 
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New Netherlands in 1664, the Dutch h no ‘‘ actual possessions ”’ east o 
parallel line 20 miles distant = on along th le western 
border of New England; that the rightful jurisdiction of Ne never, 
until the order of 1764, extended furt eas than that line; but t 
was commisssioned in 1741, and that the latter’s grants to the west of Con- 
necticut River were authorized and valid. 
The district of the New Hampshire grants annexed to New York. The 
order of July 20, 1764, making the west bank of the Connecticut To BE the 
boundary between New York and New Hampshire, was received in New 
