" Your Majesty having been pleased to refer unto this Com- "mittee the humble Petition of the Incorporated Society for "the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Setting "forth among other things, that Benning Wentworth Esquire "¢ Governor of New Hampshire in New England, made several "Grants of Large Tracts of Land lying on the West side of " Connecticut River, which were incorporated into above one " hundred Townships, end several shares were reserved in each "of the said Grants to the Petitioners for a Glebe for the Church "of England, and for the benefit of a School: That the Govern- «¢ment of New York having claimed the said Lands and the " Jurisdiction thereof, granted great part of those Lands without "reserving any shares for the abovementioned Publick Uses: " And therefore the Petitioners Pray that the Grants made by " the Government of New Hampshire may be ratified and con- "firmed, or such order made thereupon as to your Majesty " should seem meet--and your Majesty having been likewise "pleased to refer unto this Committee the humble Petition of _

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* Samuel Robinson of Bennington in North America on behalf of "himself and more than one thousand other Grantees of Lands "on the West side of Connecticut River, under Certain Grants "issued by the said Governor of New Hampshire Setting forth " amongst other things, that the said Governor made Grants to 'the Petitioners of several Tracts of Land lying as aforesaid on '" the Western side of the Connecticut River, which were incorpo- "rated into above one hundred Townships and supposed to lie "within the Government of New Hampshire, whereupon the " Petitioners expended large sums of money in settling and culti- "vating the same, That on the 20th of July 1764 the said Lands "having been declared by your Majesty to be within the Govern- "ment of New.York, the Lieutenant Governor of that Pro- " vince made grants of part of the said Lands ineluded within "the Petitioners Grants, which being of infinite prejudice to "them; they therefore most humbly pray (amongst other " things) that their said several Grants made by Governor Went- "worth may be ratified and confirmed under your Majesty's " Royal Order..