The Subscribers your Honors' Petitioners Humbly shew That whereas there has been a Petition preferd to your Honors desiring that the Northern part of the Province of New York may be set off and divided into five separate Counties, and as it has been represented to your Petitioners that your Honors Judge that it is unnecessary that there should be so many Counties at Present in that part of the Province of New York, considering their Infant State Your Petitioners therefore Humbly Beg leave to suggest to your Honors that Wee Imagine it will be nece:sary for y® well ordering of Government, considering the large Number of People that are setled upon the Lands upon Connecticut River and Nigh thereto within said Province, that there shoud be some Establishment made in order to detect Vice and

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Recover the Just dues of the People inhabiting that part of said Province. Your Petitioners Humbly pray that if it be agreeable to your Honors that there may be a County Erected within that part of the Province of New York aforesaid which lies adjoining to Connecticut River and to Extend as far West from said River. til it comes to the Height of Land about twenty six miles West of said River and to Extend as far North as ye 45th degree of North Latitude and to Extend as far South as the Province of Massachusetts Bay and that the same be Erected into a County by the name of Colden and that the County Town may be at a place known by the Name of New Hamsteed and Vested with such Priviledges as other Counties in this Province Enjoy, or, otherwise grant Relief as your Honor shall Think proper all of which is Humbly Submitted by your Petitioners.