By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esq; His Majesty's lieutenant governor and commander in chief of the province of New-York ... A proclamation : Whereas King Charles the Second, by his several letters patent bearing date the 12th day of March, 1663-4, and the 29th June, 1674, did give and grant ... unto his brother, James Duke of York, certain lands, of which the province of New-York is a part ... Given under my hand and seal at arms, at Fort-George, in the city of New-York, the twenty-eighth day of December, 1763 ...