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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
and besides give the price and sum of Ninety Thousand livres current Money of this Province half of which in gold and silver Specie and the other half in Merchandize at the prices current
in this City, which the said Sellers acknowledge
Purchasers
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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
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Received from Benjamin Price, Daniel Robertson and John Livingstone Esquire the sum of Twelve
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O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
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FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
The above and foregoing are true Copies of a Deed of Sale of the Seigniory called La Manaudiere
and of the Receipt for the Droit de Quint, as taken from the French Regi…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
May it please your Excellency
The Committee to whom were referred the several Writings lately transmitted (in pursuance of
your Proclamation) from the Province of Quebec relative to the French Claims to Lands within this
Government humbly Report
That…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
That Sir Henry Moore and r Carlton the Governors of the two Provinces fixed the place of the
Latitude of 45, by actual observation near the North end of the Lake in the Month of September
1767, and that on the 12 th August 1768 his Majesty was please…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The Committee have examined the Council Books and cannot discover that the Government of
Quebec ever gave the least Intimation to this Province of any French Grants upon Lake Champlain,
neither before nor after the said Order of August 17G8 until exc…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
up as sufficient under the Capitulation Articles in the Courts of Law, upon the supposition that they
were within the Ancient Dominions of the Crown of France, and agreeable thereto this Government
began again to Grant Lands in that Quarter, and cont…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
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en Roture, nor for several of those in the List of the Seigneuries, besides those specified in
Cramahe's Letter to your Excellency, nor is there a single petition sent or preferred by either of those
Claimants for a Confirmation under this Provinc…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
them as Lands to which the 50 th Article of the Royal Instructions has clearly no
relation.
Nor do we think that Article ought to be considered to prohibit the Grant of those Tracts to which
no French Concessions or Ratifications appear to be trans…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
for His Majesty's Royal consideration.
Several points of Enquiry will arise
upon those Grants, concerning which the Committee chuse
not to decide, on account of their singular Importance and Delicacy.
Whether a Title, if good under the French Gov…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lawrence, and by Treaty to all
the Country of the Six Nations in particular, of which the controverted Grants are a part, and we
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find that so early as the 3 rd of September, 1696, a patent did pass to Godfrey Dellius, under the Seal
of this …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
have passed the Seal of this Colony since the acquisition of Canada, we recommend it to your Excellency to order the Surveyor General to frame a Map exhibiting the French Grants and English
Patents to the Northward of Crown Point, to be laid before h…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
order to be laid
before his Majesty, with a List of the Patentees, and an account of the Quantity of Land contained
in their Patents, and the Quit rents they are chargeable with.
That the several papers referred to in
the Report of the Committee b…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lawrence River has been always acknowledged the property of
The territory southwards of
the Five Nations, subjects or allies
of Great Brittain, & as the French settlements, as well as grants within that district were made, not
under the sanction …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
The whole of this very important business will, I am persuaded, be discussed by the Lords of
Trade with that impartiality that has always distinguished their conduct ; I shall therefore avoid saying any thing more upon that subject or upon the Canadi…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
may have very fatal consequences to the King's interest.
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Dartmouth.
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FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
MINUTE OF MR. EDMUND BURKE ATTENDING THE BOARD OF TRADE. Thursday Nov 12th 1772
At a meeting of His Majesty's Comm
Lord Garlie…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Counsel, and he was desired, so soon as his Councel should be prepared, to acquaint the Secretary
therewith, in order that an early day might be fixed for the further consideration of this business.
Ordered that the Secretary do acquaint Mons r Lotb…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Lawrence down to Delaware River ; this
appears from many ancient Maps, and particularly from Blair's and Ogilby's, which I have had an
opportunity of seeing.
In 1664, King Charles the Second granted this country to the Duke of York,
expressly comp…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
its limits to be notorious, & properly
On this principle the Judicatories, here have grounded their determina-
York and the territories depending threupon " and supposes
FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
New York Patentees, and the N. Hampshir…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
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1764, as a confirmation of a prior Right, & not as having altered or enlarged the ancient Jurisdiction.
am now cautious to give an opinion on the propriety of this decision, but barely mention the
principles as they have been represented to me fo…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
the Sovereignty & protection of Great Brittain, and have ever since been considered as subjects, &
their Country as part of the dominions of the Crown.
By the Treaty of Utrecht, the French King expressly recognized the Sovereignty of Great Brittain
…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
& afterwards another Fort
This was regarded as an act of hostility, and as such complained of & resented
;
and the Colonies before the late war, to disappoint so dangerous a project, raised money and Troops
The operations became more
to erect Fortif…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.
That Gov in his speech of the 30 th
"I have the satisfaction to inform you, that your Agent has
been very active in solliciting the affairs of this Prov ce & particularly that he has succeeded in obtaining, that…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
approach of Sir Jeffry Amherst in 1759, abandoned Crown Point, there were found no ancient possessions,
nor any improvements, worthy of consideration on either side of the Lake.
The Chief
were in the environs of the Fort, and seemed intended meerl…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Had the soil and jurisdiction within the Prov ce of New York been vested in
proprietaries as in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusets Bay, or other Charter Govern' 3 it would
have been a different question but when both, the soil and jurisdiction are …
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
which had been given respecting the claims, as well on Lake Champlain, as in the district to the
westward of the Connecticut River, by which the King had reserved to himself the consideration of
those claims, I must still have the misfortune to think…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
wishing to be informed, on whose behalf, and on
Grants on Lake Champlain. You
question, I desire to have Counsel heard against the Canadian
Sir--I am honoured with your letter of the 14
what
15 JUNE 1773.
will be so good as to acquaint their Lordp…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
Your most obed1 & humble serv*
Edm Burke.
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EXTRACT FROM A REPORT
OF A COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL OF THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC RELATIVE TO COMPLETING THE BOUNDARY LINE
BETWEEN THAT PROVINCE & NEW YORK, DATED QUEBEC, AUG* 4. 1773.
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Counc…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
under any Title from the Crown of France. That we do not by our Consent to the running of the Line give up or in any manner recede or
depart from any Right or Claim to Lands to the Southward of the Line which have at any time been
or now are disputed…
O'Callaghan, E.B., ed. The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1849.
It is with singular pleasure I can inform you I accept of and assent to the Terms contained in the
Reservations of the said Report at the same time I assure you it never has been nor is my Wish or
Design to take any Advantage either over the Jurisdic…