Assembly chamber City of New York Die Veneris the 26th Day of February 1773 this Bill being passed, Ordered that Co! Ten Broek and Colo! Wells do carry this Bill To the council and desire their Concurrence thereto By Order of the General Assembly EDMD SEAMAN Clk Council Chamber City of New York 26th Febr 1773 this Bill was then read the first time and Ordered a second reading March 2a Read the Second time and ordered to be committed, Reported without Amendment and ordered a third reading. March 3 Read the third time and passed GW. BANYAR, Dep Sec. N° 42. [Seal] George the third, by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland, King defender of the faith, &c. To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern Greeting-Know Ye that among the records remaining in our Secretary's office of our province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, we have inspected a certain Act of the Governor Council and general Assembly of our said province there enrolled passed the twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy two and in the twelfth year of our reign, the tenor whereof follows in these words, An Act to appoint Commissaries to settle a line of Jurisdiction between this Province and the province of New York, Be it Enacted by the Go! Council and House of Representatives that William Brattle, Joseph Hawley, John Hancock Esquires, shall be Commissaries on the Part of this Province who shall be commissionated by the Governor, and who shall have full powers and who are hereby authorized to meet with Commissaries who are or may be appointed and in the like manner authorised and empowered by the Go Council and General Assembly of the Province of New York at such Time or Times Place or Places as shall be agreed upon by the Gov. of this Province, and the Governor of the Province of New York, then and there to agree upon a line of Future Jurisdiction betwen the said Provinces on the Easterly part of the said province of New York, and from the South to the North Boundaries of this Province, the Governors aforesaid being present and such Line agreed upon ap proved of and consented shall be presented by the Governors respectively to His Majesty for His Royal approbation, and being Ratified and Confirmed by His Majesty shall at all Times hereafter be the Line of Jurisdiction between This Province, and the Province of New York, in all and every part or Place where the said Province of New York on its Eastern Boundary shall adjoin on this Province, the True and Real extent or Boundary of this Province By the Royal Charter being in any wise to the Contrary notwithstanding. And be it Further Enacted that after such line shall be so agreed upon and approved of ratified and Confirmed the commissaries appointed by this Act are hereby authorised and empowered to employ a Surveyor or Surveyors Chainbearers and such and so many other persons that may be found necessary to perform the executive part, to run mark and ascertain the said Line in conjunction with such as may be appointed by the Province of New York, for that purpose. All which we have caused to be exemplified by these presents, In Testimony wherof we have caused these our letters to be made Patent and the great Seal of our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England to be threunto affixed witness our trusty and well beloved Thomas Hutchinson Esquire our Captain General and Govornor in Chief in and over our Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and Vice Admiral of the same, at the Council Chamber in Boston the fifth Day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred seventy three and of our Reign the Thirteenth. By His Excellency's Command THOMAS FLUCKER Secr! No 43. (Seal) Thomas Hutchinson Esquire Captain Gen! and Governor in Chief in and over his Majesty's Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England and vice Admiral of the same To William Brattle, Joseph Hawley and John Hancock Esquires Greeting Whereas the great and general court or Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts Bay above said did at their Session, begun and held at Cambridge in April last make choice of William Brattle Joseph Hawley and John Hancock Esq as commissaries on the Part of said province to act in conjunction with such persons as may be appointed by the Government of New York, for settling the Boundary Line between the two provinces, and did desire I would commissionate them for that purpose aforesaid I do therefore commissionate by these Presents and empower you the said William Brattle, Joseph Hawley, and John Hancock Esq on the part of this Government, to meet, and act in conjunction, with such persons as may be appointed by the Government of New York in settling the Boundary line as aforesaid between the Two Provinces. In. Testimony whereof I have caused the public Seal of the province of Massachusetts Bay aforesaid to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Boston the twenty ninth Day of April 1773 in the Thirteenth year of His Majesty's Reign By His Excellency's Command No 44. This Agreement indented made the eighteenth Day of May in the thirteenth year of the Reign of His Most Gracious Majesty George the Third King of Great Britain France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c and in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy three, Between John Watts, William Smith, Robert R Livingston and William Nicoll Esquires duly authorised to make such agreement by virtue of a Law of the Province of New York on the one Part and William Brattle, Joseph Hawley, & John Hancock Esquires thereunto also duly authorised by virtue of a Law of the Province of Massachusetts Bay on the other Part Witnesseth, that the Commissaries aforesaid being met at Hartford in the Colony of Connecticut for the settlement of a partition Line of Jurisdiction between the said provinces of New York and the Massachusetts Bay on the Easterly part of the said province of New York, and from the South to the North Boundaries of the said Massachusetts Bay, in Pursuance of the said Laws and Certain Commissions respectively Issued to the commissaries above named by the Governors of the Provinces aforesaid and in compliance of the Royal recommendation heretofore signified to Sir Henry Moore, Brt and to Francis Bernard Esq the then Gove" of the Said provinces by Letters from the Right Honorable the Earl of Shelburne late one of His Majesty's Principal Secretary's of State and after having had divers conferences relative to the aforesaid Boundary of the said provinces they the said commissaries do thereupon unanimously agree that the Following Line, that is to say a line beginning at a place fixed upon by the two Governments of New York and Connecticut in or about the year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and thirty one for the northwest corner of a tract of Land commonly called Oblong or Equivalent Land and running from the said corner north twenty one Degrees Ten Minutes and thirty seconds East as the Magnet needle now points to the North Line of the Massachusetts Bay shall at all times hereafter be the Line of Jurisdiction between the said province of the Massachusetts Bay and the said Province of New York in all and every part and place where the said province of New York on its Eastern Boundary shall adjoin on the said Province of the Massachusetts Bay. In Testimony whereof the commissaries aforesaid have hereunto Set their Hands and seals the Day and year first abovementioned. W BRATTLE (seal) W SAME JOHNSON JN WATTS (seal) We the Governors of the Provinces aforesaid having been present at the execution of the agreement aforesaid in Testimony of our consent thereto and of our approbation thereof have hereunto set our hands. and seals, at Hartford aforesaid this Eighteenth Day of May in the year of our Lord one Thousand seven hundred and seventy three, and the Thirteenth year of His Majestys Reign. Sealed and Delivered ELIPH DYER W SAM JOHNSON WM TRYON (seal) No 45. The Report of William Nicoll, Appointed to superintend the running out and marking the Boundary Line between the Colony of New York and Massachusetts Bay, and of Gerard Bancker surveyor appointed to Run and Mark the same, in |