Treaty of Hartford (1786)
The colonial charters for New York and Massachusetts both described their boundaries as extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. However, both charters used distances from coastal rivers as their baselines, and thus both states could claim the same land. The area in dispute included all of western New York State west of, approximately, Seneca Lake, extending all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie, and north to south from the shore of Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border.
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Treaty of Hartford (1786)
The colonial charters for New York and Massachusetts both described their boundaries as extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. However, both charters used distances from coastal rivers as their baselines, and thus both states could claim the same land. The area in dispute included all of western New York State west of, approximately, Seneca Lake, extending all the way to the Niagara River and Lake Erie, and north to south from the shore of Lake Ontario to the Pennsylvania border.
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