I Certify that it appears by the records in this office that all the Lands from Lake Champlain to the River St. Lawrence adjacent to the Northern Boundary of the State, along the forty-fifth parallel of North Latitude, viz: the boundary between the provinces of New York and Quebec, as the same was actually surveyed and established before the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, by order of the two provinces and in conformity with the agreement between them, confirmed and ratified by the King's Order in Council of the twelfth day of August, in the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-eight, have been granted by the State, with the exception only of a Reservation for the St. Regis Indians, extending about four miles East from the river St. Lawrence along the said Northern Boundary, and of another tract extending Ninety chains along the said Boundary line, which tract is not yet finally granted, but is, in pursuance of a law of this State, appropriated to make up certain deficiencies in other adjacent grants.. [L. S.] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of this office, at the City of Albany, the thirtieth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. ARCH'D CAMPBELL, Dep. Secretary. By Nathaniel Pitcher, Lieutenant Governor of the State of New York, acting as Governor of the said State: and It is hereby certified that Archibald Campbell, whose name is subscribed to the preeeding certificate, is Deputy Secretary of this State, duly commissioned and sworn, that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts. [L. S.] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Great Seal of this APPENDIX, No. XXX. CERTIFICATES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF VERMONT, RELATIVE TO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWNS OF DERBY AND Alburgh, AND OF THE GOVERNOR BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF DERBY IN THE STATE OF VERmont, as fixed by a cHARTER Appendix. No. 30. [L. S.] STATE OF VERMONT, Certificates from Secretary of State's Office, Oct. 29, 1828. the Secretary of I hereby certify, that on the twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, the Charter of the town of Derby was granted by the Legislature of the State of Vermont, as appears by the Records in this Office, and that the boundaries of said Town of Derby, are described in said Charter, as follows, viz: "Beginning at a post on the east side of Lake Mumphremagog, where the South "line of the Province of Quebec strikes the East shore of said Lake, and running "South, eighty two degrees and twenty minutes east, seven miles and a half to a "stake, twenty five links, 175° East from a beech tree, standing in the Province "line marked No. 1. No. 4. October 19, 1785, then South 17° West, five miles and "seven chains to a fir tree marked No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. then North 82° and 20 "minutes west Six miles and fifty chains, to a hemlock, near the east shore of the "South bay of Lake Mumphremagog marked No 1 No 2 then northerly by the lake "shore to the bounds begun at, containing twenty three thousand and forty acres." In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and have to these Presents affixed my Seal of Office. Dated at Montpelier, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. NORMAN WILLIAMS, State of Vermont. Boundaries of the town of Derby. Appendix. No. 30. Certificates from the Secretary of State of Vermont. Boundaries of the town of Derby. [L. S.] State of Vermont. I, Samuel C. Crafts, Governor in and over said State, hereby certify, that Norman Williams, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is Secretary of State for said State of Vermont, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his attestations as such. And I further certify, that the Signature of the said Norman Williams to said Certificate, is his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Montpelier, in said State, this thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. SAMUEL C. CRAFTS. GEO. B. SHAW, Secretary. BOUNDARIES OF THE TOWN OF ALBURGH, IN THE STATE OF VERMONT, AS FIXED BY A CHARTER Boundaries of the town of Alburgh. [L. S.] STATE OF VERMONT, Secretary of State's Office, Oct. 29, 1828. I hereby certify, that on the twenty-third day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, the Charter of the Town of Alburgh was granted by the Legislature of the State of Vermont, as appears by the Records in this Office, and that the boundaries of said Town of Alburgh are described in said Charter as follows, viz: "Beginning in the forty fifth degree of North Latitude, being the south line "of the Province of Quebec and north line of Vermont, at a monument in said line, "on the west side of Missisque bay; then Southerly by the lake shore to the South end "of the tract of land commonly called the tongue; then northerly by the lake shore, "to a monument in the South line of the Province of Quebec and north line of Ver"mont aforesaid; then east in said line to the bound begun at; then east in said line "across Missisque bay and on to the land so far that to turn South, to the northerly "line of Highgate, then westerly in the line of Highgate to lake Champlain, then north"erly by said lake to the Province line aforesaid, will contain in the two tracts of "land including by these lines the contents of twenty three thousand and forty acres "of land." In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name, and have to these Present affixed my Seal of Office. Dated at Montpelier, this twenty-ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. NORMAN WILLIAMS, State of Vermont. [L. S.] I, Samuel C. Crafts, Governor in and over said State, hereby certify, that Norman Williams, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is Secretary of State of said State of Vermont, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his attestations as such. And I further certify, that the Signature of the said Norman Williams to said Certificate, is his own proper hand writing In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed. No. 30. Dated at Montpelier, in said State, this thirtieth day of October, in the Appendix. GEO. B. SHAW, Secretary. Grants of land along the Canada Line. CERTIFICATE OF THE GOVERNOR OF VERMONT, RELATIVE TO THE LANDS FROM CONNECTICUT RIVER TO LAKE CHAMPLAIN, ADJACENT TO THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY of the state of VERMONT, 30TH OCTOBER, 1828. Samuel C. Crafts, Governor of the State of Vermont. TO ALL PERSONS WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, GREETING: the Governor of Know ye, that it appears from the records of this State, that the towns of Canaan, Certificate from Norton, Holland, Derby, Newport, (formerly Duncansborough) Troy, Jay, Richford, Vermont. Berkshire, Franklin, (formerly Huntsburgh) Highgate and Alburgh, comprising all the lands from Connecticut River to Lake Champlain, adjacent to the Northern boundary of the State of Vermont, along the forty-fifth parallel of North latitude, (viz: that boundary between the former Provinces of New York and Quebec, as the same had been actually surveyed and established before the year 1775, under the authority of the two Provinces, and in conformity with the agreement between them, and ratified by the King's Order in Council of August 1768,) have been granted and held by virtue either of the Hampshire grants, issued by the former Province of New Hampshire, or by grants by the State of Vermont, subsequent to the year 1776 And that all the said towns have been divided into severalty, and have, with two exceptions, been settled and inhabited for more than twenty years last past. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of said State to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Montpelier, in said State, this thirtieth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight. GEO. B. SHAW, Secretary. SAMUEL C. CRAFTS. APPENDIX, No. XXXI. MR. BARBOUR'S LIST WITH THE EARL OF ABERDEEN'S MARGINAL NOTES. ACTS, As "Acts of a Public Nature," demanded by the American Govern- Appendix. No. 31. Mr. Barbour's List of American Evi- dated 12th July, 1625. dence, with mar ginal notes by the Earl of Aberdeen. 1. Grant of Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander, by James I. pre- Transmitted here sumed to be dated 10th Sept. 1621. with. 2. The Act of confirmation of said grant by Charles I. presumed to be Do. 3. Grant of the Province or County of Maine by Charles 1st to Sir Fernando Gorges (or Georges) presumed to be dated 3d April, 1639. Do. No order in Council. See Commis ors in 1784. 4. Charter of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England, by William and Mary, presumed to be dated October 7th, 1691. 5. Order in Council or other Act of the Crown, by which Nova Scotia, sions of Govern- which had been part of Massachusetts' Bay, was not long after the Treaty of Utrecht, separated from Massachusetts, and erected into a separate Government. Declined as not 6. Report of the Law Officers of the Crown to the Board of Trade on being "an act of a cording to the vention. See Earl public nature," ac- two questions referred to them, being in substance, whether the Charter terms of the Con- of Massachusetts had not become vacated, so far as related to the territory of Aberdeen's note between the Rivers St. Croix and Kennebeck and the Government thereof, and the right to grant lands therein, had not reverted to the Crown. The Report is dated about the year 1730, 31, or 32. to Mr. Barbour, dated 31stOctober, 1828. Declined, as above To be sent from New Brunswick 7. The Decision of the Board of Trade or Council on the said Report. 8. The Proclamation of His Britannic Majesty of the 7th of October 1763, erecting in North America the Governments of Quebec, East and West Florida, and for other purposes. 9. Grant by Lord William Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia, unto Wilto Washington. liam Owen and others, of an Island at Passamaquoddy, called Passamaquoddy Outer Island, containing about 4000 acres, presumed to be dated 30 Sept. 1767, and Do. Do... |