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Show ACTS REiATING Part Il. Seer. I. TO THE COLONIES. 87 in them under the name of [Gigi/2:27, and del‘eribed as lying between the 34th and 45th degrees ol'Latitude. A traft in which are eomprilbd 2t large part of the colony of New England, together with the entire colonies of New York, New Jerfey, ENQUIRY INTO THE MATTER or Penl'ylvania, h'hryland, Virginia, and North Carolina, and :t fimrll fragment of South Carolina. The ear-heft of thefe charters grants to SECT. 1. Sir Thomas Gates, and others, the whole preeinfls above deferibed, to be divided {Wm were the [Error/153?:375172th 1‘0 [[28 [75/1 fiat/err in 1077/3 A'mri'zl‘az £31 [[15 into two feveral plantations. It was granted by king James 1"". T/Wgrizz'm‘z C174; ‘z‘crr .19 The preamble {ets forth, that certain perfons therein named, and others not HAT were the privileges origi- named, had belought the king to grant nally granted by the crown to the them his "licence to deduce colonies" colonies? A review of the charters is the only means of anfwering this quellion. The frt'c charters were called by the general name of the l'fl‘gbzzlzn Marten, '. he territory they take upon them to dif- into fuch parts of America, as lying be- pofe of, is It titre: the Hiltory of the Colony of Mailirchufet's Bay. XX land mentioned in *‘ See Colleflion of Charters printed for Owen, Almon, and Blyrh, in 410. 17:36, No. I. The charters in this eolleétion are referred to as 9.1:- thcntie by Mr. Mauduit, in his G 4. Short View of tween |