As Iam persuaded that when the truth is laid open it will fully appear that I have neither perverted the Power lodged in my hands, nor acted in any manner derogatory to my station, and that so far from deserving the least imputation of oppression, I have made disinterestedness the characteristic of my administration as I thought it Incumbent on me to support in every shape the dignity of the commission with which His Majesty had been pleased to honor me.

To begin my answer as far back as I can, I beg leave to transcribe some minutes of the Council which are as follows--

On Wednesday the 10t» of April 1765, the Lieutent Governor laid before the Council His Majesty's order in Council dated July 20 1764 declaring the River Connecticut to be the Boundary between the Provinces of New York and New Hampshire.

On Wednesday the 22¢ day of May 1765 the Council having taken into their consideration the case of the persons who are actually settled under the Grants of New Hampshire, and being of opinion that the dispossessing them of their Lands, would be ruinous to them and their Families gave it as their opinion to the Lieut Gov" that the Surveyor general be directed not to make any return till further orders, on any Warrant of survey already made or which may hereafter come to his hands of any. Lands possessed under those Grants, unless for the Persons who were in the actual Possession thereof.