I have signed but six Patent since I came into the Province for which I have received Fees and five are now preparing on which I have the same Rights, but have promised to give them up for the reasons I have just mentioned; I do not speak of this from ostentation, for I think that no Parade should be made of acts of this kind, as the satisfaction they give is a sufficient reward in itself and am only concerned that this Relation should be extorted from me in this manner which nothing but the defence of my own Reputation, and the hopes of making it appear how little I deserve the Character the Petitioners are pleased to draw of me, could have effected. I shall say nothing of the Extraordinary sum of thirty three thousand Pounds sterling mentioned in this Paragraph. The whole Table of my Fees having been lately transmitted to England your Lordship will see how gross a misrepresentation tltis must be even if I had ever mentioned Fees, and it should seem as if particular care had been taken to exceed all bounds of Truth in every thing they have advanced more especially in this article which could have been so easily ascertained. .

The assertion in the ninth Paragraph, that there are now upwards of one Thousand Families settled on the West side of Connecticut River in consequence of the said Grants is as great.an untruth as any set forth in the whole Petition; There is not the half of that number there, nor do I really believe the quarter part ; I have already shewed in what manner the settlements there are. carrying on, but the real land holders of the greatest part of that country actually reside in. Boston and Connecticut Governments, and so far from being turned out of Possession as is set forth in the Petition, that the greatest part of them never were there ; They have been invited to settle there, by all the encouragement this Government could give, but it is stilla