| Mrs. Burton Harrison, Martha Joanna Lamb - 1896 - 614 страница
...territory comprehending Long Island and the islands in the neighborhood, and all the lauds and rivers from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay." This included the whole of New Netherland, and was in utter disregard of the Connecticut... | |
| William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay, Noah Brooks - 1898 - 688 страница
...ter- b .' . •" ritory to the a large portion of the province of Maine, and the country York by the from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay. This grant included Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, all Long Island, and the whole of the... | |
| Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - 1900 - 396 страница
...thus settled when the Duke of York received a patent (March 12, 1664) from the King of England for " All the land from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware Bay." South of this ill-defined line the land was claimed by Lord Baltimore. The English maintained their... | |
| La Fayette Wilbur - 1900 - 440 страница
...basing his claim upon letters patent from King Charles the II to the Duke of York granting all lands from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay. On April 25, 1750, Governor Wentworth in reply to Governor Clinton's claim wrote him... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1901 - 604 страница
...gave me two tracts, or patents, as they were LITTLE BABY STUART. called ; and one of them included ' all the land from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware,' — a grant of what in truth belonged to the Dutch, who had a settlement at the mouth of the Hudson... | |
| Wallace Bruce - 1901 - 370 страница
...their Dutch neighbors. A patent was granted to the Duke of York giving to him all the lands and rivers from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay." "On the 29th of August an English Squadron under the direction of Col. Richard Nicolls,... | |
| William Henry Gocher - 1904 - 410 страница
...included in same lying •within the jurisdiction of Connecticut, "as the Duke's patent included all of the land from the •west side of the Connecticut river to the east side of the Delaware Bay." As a portion of the land •was in 1662 included in the Connecticut Charter and the boundary between... | |
| Pennsylvania Society of New York - 1904 - 390 страница
...State of Delaware rests on this grant, though it was expressly stipulated in the deed that it comprised land from the west side of the Connecticut river to the east side of Delaware bay. Penn obtained from the Duke three deeds for his lands on the Delaware : ( 1 ) a general... | |
| Albert Edward McKinley - 1905 - 540 страница
...Duke of York, including within the lands so bestowed not only Maine and Long Island, but also that from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware,1 and giving James full and absolute power to govern the inhabitants of the ceded territory.... | |
| Edwin Monroe Bacon - 1906 - 714 страница
...evidence the letters-patent of Charles II to the Duke of York, which expressly granted " all the lands from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of Delaware Bay." Governor Wentworth made answer, the same April, that this opinion would be entirely... | |
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