Excerpt from The History of the Province of New-York, From the First Discovery to the Year 1732: To Which Is Annexed, a Description of the Country, With a Short Account of the Inhabitants, Their Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in That Colony On the tenth of April, 1606, king games I; for plant 'ing two colonies, patted the great North and South Vii gi nia patent: To fir Thomas Gates and others, leave Was gi-é ven to begin a plantation, at any place on the continent, they fhould think convenient, between he 94t11.a11d 41fl degrees of latitude and all the lands extending 50 'miles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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