That there is a Tract of Land, which, tho very distant and uncultivated, they hope, may under proper Improvement contribute to this End; scituate within tiiis Province, on tlie West side of Connecticut River, Bounded Easterly by a Township called Corinth, and Southerly by another Township called Dasham; Northerly by a Line beginning at the West Line of Corinth at the distance of about four miles and a half from the Southwest Corner of Corinth and running parallel to the North Boundary Line of Dasham and Westerly by a Line from the Nortli Line of Dasham continued westward to the said parallel Line & at such a Distance from Corintli and paralled thereto, as to Compreliend Twenty four Thousand acres and with the usual allowance lor Highways.

That the aforesaid Tract, tho within the late Claim of New Hampshire, has never been patented under that Government but is free from aU Controversy, and still remains vested in the Crown -- Wherefore as well from your Benevolent Disposition, as from Your Excellency's firm atttachment to our happy Establishment the Petitioners hope That this their Request, wiU readily meet with your Countenance and approbation.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly Pray that Your Excellency will be favourably Pleased, by his Majesty's Letters Patent, to Grant unto them and their Successors the Tract of Land above described: And That the same may be erected into

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a Township by the name of [Kingsland] with the usual Privileges, and under tlie Terms of his Majesty's Instructions