As soon ag the Riots and disturbances here had subsided, and the common business of the Province had returned into the usual Channell, I took the first Opportunity of enquiring into the state of that Part of the Province which lay on the Connecticut River and having got together some of the principal Claimants of the Lands, I desired to be informed of the Progress already made in the settlements and directed them to point out to me in what shape I could assist them as I imagined they then stood in need of all the aid which the Government could give them; The first thing which occurred was the difficulty they were likely to labour under in regard to their Situation, as that part of the Province was included in the County of Albany, the county town of which was at too great a distance from them to give attendance there; For their relief in this article I proposed to the Assembly that some part of that District should be erected into a seperate County, which wag accordingly done and a large Tract which took in a space equal to Forty supposed Townships was included in the County which was called Cumberland; Several Bills were passed to Enable them to build a Court House, Prison, &c+. and every priviledge possessed by the other Countits in the Province was granted. to them except that of sending Members to the Assembly which at their own request, was left out, for the new County was neither populous enough to require such a Priviledge, and the expence of paying their Members which. is constantly practised in this part of the world would have been burthensome to them so that