By vertue of his Majesties commission we have heard the differences about the bounds of the patents, granted to his Royall Highnesse the Duke of Yorke and his Majesties Colony of Conecticutt; and haveing deliberately considered all the reasons alleadged by Mr. Allyn Senr, Mr. Gold, Mr. Richards and Captaine Winthrop, appoynted by the Assembly, held at Hartford the 13th day of October 1664, to accompany John Winthrop Esqr., (the Governour of his Majesties Colony of Conecticut,) to New Yorke, and by Mr. Howell and Captaine Young of Long Island, why the sayd Long Island be under the Government of Connecticutt, which are to long here to be recited, wee doe declare and order, that the southern bounds of his Majesties Colony of Conecticutt, is the sea, and that Long Island is to under the Government of his Royall Highness the Duke of Yorke, as is exprest by playn words, in the sayd patents respectively,

And also by vertue of his Majesties commission, and by the consent of both the Governours, and the gentlemen above named, wee allso order and declare, that the Creeke or River, called Momoronock, which is reputed to be about twelve miles to the east of Chester, and a lyne drawne from the east poynt or side, where the fresh water falls into the salt, at high water marke, north, northwest, to the line of the Massachusets, be the western bounds of the sayd Colony of Conecticutt, and all plantations lyeing westwards of that creeke and lyne so drawne to be under his Royall highnese Goverment, and all plantations lyeing eastward of that creeke and lyne, to be under the Goverment of Conecticutt. Given under our hands at Forte James in New Yorke on Manhatans Island this 30th day of November, 1664.

RICHARD NICOLLS,

GEORGE CARTWRIGHT,

SAMUELL MAVERICK.

December 28th, 1664,

Wee under written, on the behalfe of the Colony of Conecticutt, have assented unto this determination of his Majesties Commissioners in relation to the bounds and limits of his Royall Highness the Dukes pattent, and the pattent of Conecticutt—Nov. 30th, 1664.

JOHN WINTHROP,

MATHEW ALLYN,

NATHAN GOLD,

JAMES RICHARDS,

J. WlNTHROP.