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the Places on the Frontiers; Notwithstanding
which you have, in your Boundary,
cut off a large Tract of Country, which
you all know has been long since
purchased & settled; the Land is patented
one hundred Miles beyond [Fort Edward, - underlined]
& a great distance beyond the [Mohawk Castle, - underlined]
and the Line you make from thence
to [Harris's Ferry, - underlined] instead of
adding to, cut off several Towns &
Settlements, particularly in ________
[Pennsylvania, - underlined] which you know has
been fairly purchased & allowed of by __
you, & to which you can make no ___
claim: And you have taken no
notice of the other Governments.

The affair of the Mohawks is of old
standing, and I have never neglected
it. I can prove by papers I have __
here, that I laid it before Gov Clinton
15 years ago; and that at the grand
Congress at Albany in 1754, I did what
I could for the Mohawks, who were
promised to have the matter strictly
examined into. There is a Patent
for it, & it is not an easy matter to
break it. The Mohawks have given
me infinite trouble about it ever since
the