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setts and the Palatine, as to jurisdiction over the province, was brought before the privy council at the same time with that of Mason respecting New-Hampshire, and the claim of Massachusetts was adjudged void.^[1] Before a final adjudication was had, Massachusetts had the prudence and sagacity, in 1677, to purchase the title of Gorges for a trifling sum; and thus to the great disappointment of the crown, (then in treaty for the same object,) succeeded to it, and held it, and governed it as a provincial dependency, until the fall of its own charter; and it afterwards, as we have seen, was incorporated with Massachusetts in the provincial charter of 1691.^[2]

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1. 1 Chalmers's Annals, 485, 504, 505; 1 Holmes's Annals, 388.
2. 1 Chalm. Ann. 486, 487; 1 Holmes's Ann. 388; 1 Hutch. Hist. 326.