However that may be, in pursuance of the urgent
solicitations of Governor Golden, the king in council, on the 20tli
day of July, 1764, without notice to the opposite party, adopted an
order, settling the west bank of Gonnecticut River as the boundary
of the two provinces.
The only charter of which v>'e have knowledge, as being issued,
by the governor of Noav Hampshire, after the king's order, was that
of Panton. as herefore mentioned, dated November 3. 1764, which
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was before notice of the order had been received in this country,
that not arriving until the following spring. On the receipt of the
order, Governor Wcntworth, .is well as the governor of New
York, issued his proclamation, giving notice to all persons concerned,
of the decision of the King in council, fixing the boundary.hereby order and declare
the western banks of the river Connecticut," " to be the boundary
lino between the said t^vo provinens." On the 11th of April 17G7,
Lord SiiELBURNE, president of the board of trade, wrote to Gover-
nor MooiiE, of New York, reciting that U\o petitions had been pre-
sented to the King, " one by the Society for the Propagation of tlie
Gospel, and the other by Samuel Robinson, in behalf of himself
and more than one thousand other grantees," says, •' In my letter
of the 11th of December, I was very explicit upon point of former
grants ; you are therein directed to take care, that the inhabitants
lying westward of the L'nc, reported by the Lords of Trade, as the
boundaries of the two provinces, be not molested, on account of ter-
ritorial differencee,