is done in other Paris of the Country, to Fortify, Garrison nd defend such Towns, to settle and maintain Ministers of the Gospeland Schoolmasters, both for themselves and the Indians living | about them: and to free such Towns and Precincts from allother public Taxes Expenses and troubles, wherein they should not particularly be concerned. - And whereas we find John Christopher Hartwick minister of the Gospel inclined and conceive him able to promote both the kingdom of Christ and that of Your Majesty: therefore after he had obtained Your Majestys Lycence to purchase, we have sold to him in Your Majestys Name a Tract of Land the remotest, that hath been purchased yet. And whereas both by Reason of the great Distance from markett and because of the Nearness to the Enemies Country and the Adjoining Wilderness of the people that would undertake to settle it must labour under great Hardships and Difficulties, arising from the above mentioned Circumstances easily to be conceived and too tedious to mention to Your Majesty and whereas the far greater part of the Tract of 'Land aforesaid is not improvable, and what is so is much interrupted by Hills, so that the good cannot be seperated from the bad, without putting the undertaker to insupportable Charges, the Land must either remain waste to the Detriment of Your Majesty's Interest because it cannot make good the charges and Fees of Surveying and Patenting, wich are great, or bring up the Quitrent, wich is now higher than that wich is paid from good and conveniently and savely situated Land, or an Exemption must be granted. _ For these Reasons and from such Considerations as these, as also trom the Confidence we put in the Grace and Favour, wich Your Majesty hath allways been wont to bestow upon us We have taken upon us to intercede to Your Majesty in Behalf of the aforementioned John Christopher Hartwick humbly praying Your Majesty, to grant to the said John Christopher Hartwick the Tracts of Land sold to him by us; and more particularly described in the Deeds of Conveyance and Returns of the Surveyor; on such easy Terms as to Your Majesty in Your Grace and Wisdom 'shall seem most fit and expedient for the Intents and Purposes: aforementioned, wich we forbear mentioning at