The Officers and Men of the Provincials, all live in this Country, have their friends and Relations to assist them, and as the Colony Troops were levied annually, and received annual bounty, different Officers and Men were employed in different years ; their numbers will be very great, and the trouble to the Civil Officers of this Governt become very heavy ; for the charter and Proprietary Governts are not bound by the King's proclamation. It seems therefore reasonable that, if the King should think proper to extend his Bounty of an abatement of Quit Rents, for ten years, in favour of the Provincials, that they receive their grants on paying the usual fees.

I am with great respect & humble submission My Lords Your most obedient & faithful servant CADWALLADER COLDEN.

570 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

PROCLAMATION OF GOV. WENTWORTH

IN ANSWER TO THE PRECEDING OF LT. GOV COLDEN.

By His Excellency Benning Wentworth Esqt Captain General Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's province of New Hampshire in New England &c

A PROCLAMATION

Wuerras His Honor Cadwallader Colden Esqt Lieutenant Governor and commander in chief of His Majestys Province of New York hath lately issued a Proclamation of a very extraordinary nature, Seting forth that King Charles the Second, on the 12th day of March 1663|4 and the 29th June 1674, did by his several Letters patent of those dates, grant in fee to his Brother the Duke of York among other Things all the Land from the west Side of Connecticut River to the East Side of Delaware Bay and therein also sets forth, or describes the Bounds of New Hampshire, in which description there is a very material mistake, besides there is omitted the fact, on which the description of New Hampshire depended, vizt His Majesty's determination of the northern, and western Boundarys of the province of the Massachusets Bay in 1739 & nothing can be more evident, than, that New Hampshire may legally extend' her western Boundary as far as the Massachusets claim reaches ; and She claims no more, but New York pretends to claim even to the Banks of Connecticut River although She never laid out and Settled one town in that part of His Majesty's Lands Since she existed as Government.