How far the settlements have been carried on has been already shewed, and I shall leave it to your Ldp. to judge of their intentions in regard to the remainder when I take upon me to assert that notwithstanding the appropriation of these Shares for public uses and Expressly so described in the Body of the Charters, The Petitioners had so little design to serve any body but themselves that they had the assurance to request that these public shares might be divided among them, without giving the least attention to the purposes for which they were designed and without the least scruple of defrauding the Society of its Rights ; If the intention of His Majesty's Council in regard to the Interest of the Society had not differed greatly from those of the Petitioners I can take upon me to say that the Society would not at this time, have been entitled to a single lot of Land in all that part of the Province. There is not the least Foundation for that assertion of being prevented by the Government of New York for great care was taken to give them all the assurances possible that they should be protected in their Rights and no pains were spared to convince the Settlers of the good Intentions of this Government towards them.

The Second Complaint is, That theyare altogether deprived of the greater and better part of their Right. I have already had the honor of acquainting your Lordship that there have been proceedings only on 28 of these Townships ; In 24 of them the Rights of the Society and all the grants in the first Charters for public uses have been expressly reserved for the uses therein mentioned. No failure has been made but in the four first Grants which passed the Council, and as I am informed that the Charters were not at that time before them, it occasion4 an Omission which has been guarded against ever since, of these four, only one has passed the Great Seal, so that the shares may be still reserved in the three which remain.