May it please your Excellency According to your Directions on Saturday Last, I have with the assistance of Mr Stone, Computed the Number of Men fit to bear armes in the Limits of A Proposed Regiment, to be under my Command, and find the same to be about six Hundred, that we account for.

And in the Limits of the Proposa Regiment for Cole Bayley, about Three hundred.

from your Excellency's most Dutifull Obedient, and Very Humble Servant

New York Tuomas Cuanpier. Jant 20th 1766.

To His Execllency Sir Henry Moore Baronet. |

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 587

Orper of the Governor and Council of New York, that the Claimants under New Hampsurre, Sue out their Grants by a limited Time, to prevent the Preference of other Petitioners.

Ar a Council held at Fort George, in the City of ew York on Friday, the Sixth Day of June 1766.

Presenr. His Excellency Sir Henry Moore, Baronet, Captain General, &¢. Mr. Smith, Mr. Read, Mr. Watts, Mr. Morris,

Mr. De Lancey. he Board having under Consideration, sundry Petitions for Lands; lying on the West Side of Connecticut River, which were formerly granted by Letters Patent under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire, but were then: actually, and do now by his Majesty's Order in Council of the 20 day of July 1764 appear to be within the Limits of this Province: It is ordered by his Excellency the Governor, with the Advice of the Council, that all Persons holding or claiming Lands under such Grants, do, as soon, as may be, appear by themselves or their Attornies, and produce the same, together with all Deeds, Conveyances, or other Instruments by which they derive any Title or Claim to the said Lands, before his Excellency in Council; and that the Claims of such Person or Persons who shall not appear, and support the same as aforesaid, within the Space of three Months from the Date hereof, be rejected; and the Petitions already preferred for the said Lands forthwith proceeded upon; also that Notice hereof be given, by publishing this Order three Weeks successively in one or more of the public News-Papers printed in this City. ' (Here follows) An ordinance for establishing a Court of Common Pleas, and a Court of General Sessions of the Peace 'in the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York. 11 July 1766: Read in Councill & approved of and ordered to pass the Seals.