We would further Suggest to your Honours, that unless there be a County made as prayed for, instead of good wholesome Inhabitants comeing and Settling amongst us, the Land will be filled with Nothing, but Villins and Murderers, as being an out Law'd place, and the present Good Inhabitants must be obliged to forsake their Habitations & Improvements, we can assure your Honour, that many good worthy men have made Improvements on some of said Land and wait for Nothing but a County to be made, and when it is made will forthwith move with their Families.

And now upon the whole, may it please your Honours, we apprehend there is sufficient Evidence to Induce your Honours to grant a County as prayed for and hope ye same may be forth-

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with accomplished and we Dismissed to Return to our Several] homes with pretention of Law &¢ And we as in duty-bound shall Ever Pray Thos Chandler Nath» Stone Sam! Wells James Rogers Simon Stevens Zedekiah Stone

224 Oct" 1765. Read and referred to the Same Committee with two other petitions.

REPORT ON PRECEDING PETITIONS.

May it please your Honour

In obedience to your Honours orders in Council referring to this Committee, three several Petitions, exhibited by Thomas Chandler and others, in behalf of themselves and their associates, Inhabitants of the Northeastern part of this Province, praying that for the better administration of Justice, and the greater Convenience and Encouragement of the Setlers there, One or more Counties may be erected and Constituted in that part of the Province, with the Priviledges usually granted to other Counties within the same: The Committee have had this matter under their Consideration, and humbly conceive it to be of too much Importance, as the Informations they have been able to obtain, are very contradictory and unsatisfactory, to advise the Establishment of any New County on that side of the Province, more especially as the Inhabitants there, have as yet only an Equitable Title to the Lands they possess ; are utterly unacquainted with the Laws of the Province, and the Modes of dispensing Justice therein ; whence it must in our opinion be attended with greater Inconvenience to invest them with those Ample Powers, that will necessarily be lodged in their Hands on their being formed into a separate County ; than by the appointe