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A37133 To the Kings most excellent Majesty. The humble petition of William Dyre Gent Dyer, William, of Rhode Island. 1670 (1670) Wing D2948A; ESTC R215315 4,839 4

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TO THE KINGS Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of William Dyre Gent. Sheweth THat whereas their late Royal Majesties King James and King Charles the First of ever blessed Memory did upon the Resignation of the Grand Charter Grant by their Letters Patents several Colonies in that part of America called new-New-England beginning in the West to the Lord Mougrave running Eastward to Hudsons River Secondly To his Grace the Duke of Richmond Thirdly To the Earl of Carlisle Fourthly To the Lord Edward Gorges Fifthly To the Marquess of Hamilton Sixthly To Captain John Mason and Lastly To Sir Fardinando Gorges All or most of which Colonies having been Planted and Peopled at the Charge and by the Noble Encouragement of the Proprietors and many Adventurers do increase and flourish daily Notwithstanding some of those and them not the least considerable are much obstructed in their Prosperity and greatly Ruined by the continual Disputes and Controversies arising from their unsetled Limits and Bounderies which hath occasioned much dissention amongst the Governments Treason of the Massathusets usurping a Power and imposing Laws or Tyrannical Edicts upon the Inhabitants of the Provinces of Mayn and Newhampshire using Acts of Hostility against the Institutions of the Proprietors and in direct opposition to Your Majesties express will and pleasure strictly commanding the contrary have subverted the Government setled there by your Majesties Commissioners in the year 1666. to the Injury and Disquiet of the Commonalty and Contempt of Your Royal Authority Wherefore to Compose the matter and put an end to the aforesaid Differences and for setling Peace Union and Concord amongst Your Majesties Subjects and Plantations it is most humbly Pray'd that Your Sacred Majesty will be Graciously pleased to purchase of Mr. Mason and Mr. Gorges the abovesaid Provinces of Newhampshire and Mayne which now may be bought at an easie Rate the which will give your Majesty an absolute and immediate Dominion of all New-England and bring into Your Majesty the most considerable advantages that either have been or are to be made by any of those Your Majesties Plantations as shall be demonstrated by Your Petitioner with Your Majesties Leave And Your Petitioner shall ever Pray c. AN EXPERIMENTAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL Description Of the PROVINCES of Mayn and New Hampshire in North America now belonging to Mr. John Mason and Fardinando Gorges Esquire with a brief Collection of such advantages as are to be made by the same if in case they were in your Majesties possession and setled under your immediate Government most humbly offered to Your Majesties Consideration By W. D. Gent. First concerning the Entrance Latitude and Course of Merrimeck River for decision of the Northern bounds of the Massathusets Colony in New England THe River Monomack alias Merrimack hath its inlet or Easterly beginning about 22 miles North and by East from Cape Ann the North side of the said Rivers Mouth being in 42 degrees and 57 minutes Northerly Latitude running West Southerly as far as 〈◊〉 the South and Salisbury on the North where the River is about half a mile over and the Torrent swift though mitigated by an Island in the midst thereof and from thence to Haverhill VVest South-VVest and so continues its course VVestward as high as any settlement of English or discovery hath yet been made and is said to proceed from the Lake of Troquoies which falls into Hudsons River and this of Merrimack but to my certain knowledge there is no principal branch nor part of Merrimack that lies or extends more Northerly then the North-side of the entrance or Rivers mouth three English miles to the Northward of which into the Land was built a little Hutt called Bound-house which said Cottage or place where it stood being in 43 degrees of Northern-Latitude is the Septentrional Confines of the Massathusets line nor did they pretend to any more till the New-setled Plantations in the Provinces of Mayn and New-hampshire being without Government and in danger of the Salvages craved their Temporary protection which having been long continued is now by the Bostonians claim'd as their Rights Indeed if Merrimack River or any branch of it were found to run so far Northward as 45 degrees and then taking into the Land three English miles farther North from whence stretching a direct line Eastward into the Atlantick Sea it must be own'd that then the Provinces of Mayn and New-Hampshire do fall inclusively within the Massathusets bounds And so likewise from the Southward of the South-west stream of Charles River and three English miles Southward of that running a due South course into the Ocean will be comprehended the Provinces of Novum-belgium New-haven Conecticutt Rhod-Island and New-Plymouth The thoughts of which boundless possessions might swell them of the Massathusets Colony into an ambitious conceipt of being absolute Lords and Proprietors of a Great Empire and so arrogate to themselves a Liberty of prescribing Laws and exercising their Dominion over all the Inhabitants of New-England But to prevent their Title to so Copious a Claim and settle other Patentees into their just dues It 's presumed there is nothing more plain and demonstrable both from the course of the Rivers and the express words of the Charter then that the intent of the Patent and bounds of the Massathusets Grant was three English miles to the Northward of the Northernmost banks of Merrimack taking it Gradually into the Land parallel with the River as it runs up into the Countrey which is West-Southerly and in the same manner not to exceed three English miles to the Southward of the South-west part of Charles River still taking it up along the said Rivers side and not from the heads or extream Branches thereof and then three English miles to the Southward or Northward of each River and so run by course into the Sea which would include all the Southern and Northern Colonies abovesaid rendering their Patents insignificant and improperly Granted Wherefore the hope of Your Majesties suffering Subjects depends wholly upon Your Majesties Gracious Clemency Wisdom and Justice for Relief in the matter it being only in Your Majesties Royal Power to put a final issue to the Controversies which is earnestly desired by all that wish well to Your Majesties interests and may be happily honourably and successfully done by Your Majesties Purchasing the Provinces of New-Hampshire and Mayne of the abovesaid Proprietors which are situated and furnished according to the Description here following THe Province of New-Hampshire which was the assignment of Captain John Mason is bounded on the South and South-west by the Massathusets line North-Eastward upon the Province of Mayne on the East and South-East by the Sea stretching Westward into the Continent and lies between 43 and 44 degrees of North-Latitude in which is comprised Newhampton with several other Towns Villages and spacious Farms pleasantly situated some fronting the Sea some within Land and some upon the South-West-side or part of Pascataway-River where are built