Two Petitions having been most humbly presented to the King in council, One by the uncorporated Society for the propagation of the Gospel, and the other by Samuel Robinson of Bennington, in behalf of himself, and more than one theusand other grantees of Lands on the West side of Connecticut River, under certain Grants issued by Benning Wentworth Esq't® Governour of New Hampshire & praying for redress in several great Grievances therein set forth, lest there should be any further proceedings in this matter, till such time as the council shall have Examined into the grounds of it, I am to signify to you His Majesty's Commands that you make no new Grants of these Lands and that ? you do not molest any person in the quiet possession of His Grant, who, can produce good and valid Deeds for such Grant under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire until you receive further orders respecting them.

Ini my letter of the 11" Dect I was very Explicit upon the point of former Grants you are therein directed to "take care " that the Inhabitants lying Westward of the Line, reported by "the Lords of Trade as the Boundary of the Two Provinces be "not molested on account of Territorial differences, or disputed " jurisdiction for whatever Province the Setlers may be found to " belong to, itskould make no difference in their Property, pro-

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"vided that their Titles to their Lands should be found good in "other Respects or that they have been long in the uninterrupt- "ed Possession of them." His Majesty's Intentions are so clearly expressed to you in the above Paragraph that I Cannot doubt of your having immediately upon receipt of it removed every cause of those complaints which the Petitioners set forth.