I find the Representation on the part of New York was not approved of by the Council until the 18 of October 1751, when it was entered on the Minutes together with a letter of mine on the same Subject, But before this period Mt Wentworth had in his letter to the Board of Trade of the 234 March 1750|1 suggested to their Lordships what he thought proper to urge on this Subject in behalf of his own Government, without Transmitting any Copy thereof, to Governor Clinton.

Thus the Matter rested, according to my Information, until the Incursions of the Indians into this Province, immediately preceding the late War put an intire stop to any new Settlements, and rendered hoth Governments less solicitous to bring this Controversy to an Issue: the Government of New York confiding that New Hampshire, after what has passed, would not venture to make any further Grants, until his Majesty should be pleased to Determine the Limits between his two Provinces as such Grants, where they might interfere with those of New York, must be considered as a mere Nullity.

But how great was the surprise of this Government, when

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they lately Discovered that New Hampshire had since the Transactions above recited, granted upwards of Thirty, some affirm one hundred and Sixty Townships, Each six miles square, Westward of Connecticut River; a Fact which had probably been still concealed from the knowledge of this Government, had not the Grantees or persons employed by them Travelled thro' all parts of this, and in the Neighbouring, Province of New J ersey, publickly offering the Lands to Sale, at such low rates, as evince the claimants had no Intention of becoming Settlers, either from Inability, or conscious they could derive no Title to the Lands under the Grants of New Hampshire.