ment of proper and fit persons as Justices for the Conservation of the Peace: the Mode of Justice to which they have been accustomed, having had no other Jurisdiction among them since their first Settlement and being always obliged to travel to Portsmouth; where all the Courts of Justice in the Province of New Hampshire are held, a distance far more Considerable, than to the Courts in Albany. And should the Committee, to suit a present convenience advise the forming a part of the Province so little known. into a County, when it must shortly become expedient to new model it, private property would be greatly injured, by altering the seat of the Courts of Justice, and other Places of Public Resort. Upon the whole therefore, the Committee are humbly of opinion, that your Honour do appoint a competent Number of fit persons for the Conservation of the Peace and the administration of Justice in that -part of the Province : All which is nevertheless humbly submitted By order of the Committee

New York 224 October 1765 Wo Smiru, Chairman.

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To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet Capt General Governor and Commander in Chief in and Over the Province of New York and Territories Depending thereon in America.

Tn Council According to your Excellency and Honours orders of yesterday to give an accot of the Names of the severall persons Living on the Severall Townships of Land we Represent and according to what we can recollect are as follows viz' In the Township of