. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. 17S4: Massachusetts. April 1!.?ml Connecticut. September 13, 1786. transferredher claim reserving about 3. ,1 acres in the north-east part of the present State of Ohio.—(Young). The lands ceded by Massachusetts were transferred bythe following authority: The legislature of Massachu-setts, by two acts passed 13th November, 1784, and 17thMarch, 1785, authorized a session by their delegates inCongress to the United States, of such part of the terri-tory between the Hudson and Mississippi rivers as thedelegates might think proper, under whi
. History of Chautauqua County, New York, and its people. 17S4: Massachusetts. April 1!.?ml Connecticut. September 13, 1786. transferredher claim reserving about 3. ,1 acres in the north-east part of the present State of Ohio.—(Young). The lands ceded by Massachusetts were transferred bythe following authority: The legislature of Massachu-setts, by two acts passed 13th November, 1784, and 17thMarch, 1785, authorized a session by their delegates inCongress to the United States, of such part of the terri-tory between the Hudson and Mississippi rivers as thedelegates might think proper, under which authority, adeed of session was executed by the delegates, on the18th April, 1785. By this deed all the territory lyingwestward of a meridian line to be drawn from the lati-tude of forty-five degrees north, through the mostwesterly bend of Lake Ontario, or a meridian line drawnthrough a point twenty miles due west from the mostwesterly bend of the Niagara river (whichever lineshould be found to be most to the west), was ceded tothe United MAP OF MORRISS PURCHASE, OR WEST GENESEO, NEW YORK Exhibiting parts of lakes Erie and Ontario, the Straits of Niagara. Chautauqua Lake, and all the principal waters; the boundary lines of the several tracts of land purchased l>\ the Holland Land Co any, William and John Willitik. and others. Boundary lines of lines of New York and Indian Reservations. Laid down byactual survey. Also a sketch of Upper Canada, by Joseph and B. Elli-cott, 1800. To the Holland Land Company, their general agents Theo-pliilus Cazenove and Paul Busti, Esquires, this map is respectfullyinscribed by the authors. 1804. THE HOLLAND LAND PURCHASE 253 The State of New York had previously limited herwestern boundary by the same line, an instrument tothis effect dated 1st March, 1781, having been executedby her delegates in Congress, under the authority of anact passed 19th February, 1780. The acceptance of these cessions by the United Sta
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