, whereupon a deed was �given to the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II., which included a vast territory, claimed to embrace a large part of New England, and what is now within New York, New Jersey, Penn- sylvania and Delaware. The name of the New Netherlands was changed to New York. The deed given to

of the Three and fourtieth Degree of Northern Latitude, and on the South by a Circle Drawn at Twelve Miles dis- tance from Newcastle Northwards, and Westwards unto the Beginning of the Fourtieth Degree of Northern Latitude, �and then by a straight Line Westwards to the limit of Longitude above men