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The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 91 (part 2)

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] Oswe<To on the South side of Lake Ontario was first established by this Colony about 1724, a Gar-rison of the King's Troops supported there at the Expence of this Government, and the Jurisdiction of New York actually exercised Westward to Oswego and its Vicinity until the Commencement of Hostilities in the late war. His Majestys Order of the 20 July 1764 confirming the Ancient Limits as granted the Duke de-clares " The Western Banks of the River Connecticut from where it enters the Province of the " Massachusetts Bay as far North as the Forty fifth Degree of Northern Latitude," to be the Boundary