Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Preamble and Boundary Clauses of the Illinois Constitution: A Paper Read Before the Chicago Historical Society, January 18, 1910
This last colony held under a sea-to-sea charter by Charles II. In 1662 granting to John Winthrop and associates all lands west of Narragansett Bay, and south of the Massachusetts line and between it and the sea and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony running from east to west, that is to say from the said Narragansett Bay on the east to the South Sea on the west part.4 It was this charter, never annulled by judicial proceedings, and not even physically surrendered upon demand of Sir Edward Andros in 1687, which supported the claim of Connecti cut to that part of what is now Illinois situated between lat. 11. Which runs a few miles south of Kankakee.
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