Colden desiring him to give me the best Informations he could on those Heads, I have herewith transmitted his letter, together with the Copy of the Proclamation he issued, and likewise the Extract of a Letter James Duane Hsqr¢ a Barrister at Law here, and a man of so good a Character that his Testimony carries the greatest weight With it, who being acquainted with some of the Proceedings of Robinson, and having rendered him some services I thought it proper to apply to him for a further confirmation of what I have already advanced in this Letter in regard to a Number of Townships being granted by New Hampshire within the acknowledged Bounds of this Province.

I now come to that part of the Petition which relates to myself, and as the 7'h Article of it only mentions the Order which was issued by me and taken notice of in the former part of this Letter, I shall proceed to the 8t» in which such a number of falsities are crowded together that they cannot be better answered than by a bare relation of the whole matter of Fact which I

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shall do as concisely as I can and leave it to your Lordship to Judge between us.

In my Letter to the Lords of Trade mention is made that Robinson and a few others who had joined him had made an application for Forty five Townships which Proposal for so large a quantity of Land in proportion to the number of Persons concerned in it was thought so very absurd that it was treated as it deserved and rejected. I never had any other application from him of any kind but as an humble Suitor to desire I would assist him in the distress which he had brought on himself by settling on the Lands which were ordered to be granted some. time before under this Govern™t to other People; when his pretensions were examined before the Council I was his Advocate there, altho' he did not stand much in need of one for the Council were always determined from the Beginning to protect the Setlers and the Land claimed by him, One Cole and seven or eight other Persons who were associated with him were ordered to be secured to them alltho' apparently included in other Patents.