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Letters Patent of George III, by William Tryon esquire, captain general and governor in chief of New York Province.

1664; 1774

From: 1664 To: 1774

Recites Letters Patent of Charles II to Colonel Richard Nicolls, Sir Robert Carr knight, George Cartwright esquire and Samuel Mavericke, to settle disputes which had arisen as to boundaries and other matters between colonies of New England, i.e. Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Plymouth, Rhode Island and Providence Plantation, and all the plantations in the tract of land known as the “Appellacon” of New England. 26 April 1664. Recites also the award of the Commissioners, that the southern boundary of Connecticut be the sea, and that Long Island is to be under the government of His Royal Highness Duke of York; that the creek or river called Momoronock “reputed to be circa 13 miles to the east of Westchester and a line drawn from the east point or side where the fresh water falls into the salt at high water mark north northwest to the line of the Massachusetts” be the western bounds of Connecticut; all the plantations west of the creek to be under the Duke of York, all those east under Connecticut. Given at Jamesfort, New York on Manhattan Island, 1 December 1664. All which at the request of John Penn of Philadelphia esquire is caused to be exemplified (by these presents). Given “at our fort in our city of New York” 5 April 1774. (Papered seal of New York, fair impression).

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George III,
Tryon, William,
Charles II,
Nicolls, Richard,
Carr, Robert,
Cartwright, George,
Mavericke, Samuel,
James II,
Penn, John

legal papers, Pennsylvania, boundaries, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, plantations, New York