concerning the Lands on the 'Connecticut River, with much greater reason should I do it now in offering any thing more on the same subject. The inclosed petitions were preparing at the time the last Pacquet sailed, and notwithstanding I have informed the persons concerned in it, of what your Lord? was pleased to mention in your letter by ¢his last, Packquet concerning those lands, they still think it an injustice done to them not to forward their case to'your Lordp if their grants are refused to be made out by me on their application for them. So much has already been said on this head, that I shall only beg leave to submit the following observations to your Lordp. When His Majty's order in Council was first sent over by the Earl of Shelburne; forbidding any further grants to be made of the Lands in question it was the general opinion here, that the restriction was only intended to be laid on the granting of any patents which could possibly affect the particular Townships, set forth in Robinson's Petition; I took His Majty's order in a greater latitude, & notwithstanding the repeated attacks made upon me, as well by reduced: officers and disbanded Soldiers, as .by the Inhabitants of this Province, I have constantly refused to comply with their demands allthough the Lands for which they applyed had never been granted by the Govern' of N. Hampshire, or included in the above mentioned Petition; as some Townships were sup- 'posed to be laid out on the west side of Lake Champlain (altho' there was no other foundation for such a supposition than a Map printed in the Province of Connecticut), I observed the same rule in regard to that part of the Country, notwithstanding there was not the least appearance upon Earth of a survey -having been-made there it is now above two years since I wrote my first letter to the Earl of Shelburne in answer to the Petitions of Robinson and the Society for propagating the Gospel, during which time I have-used every means in my power to carry into execution the plan I had formed by making such a communication with the Provee of Quebec as I have already had the honor of laying before your Lord? but in our present situation every endeavour of mine will be rendered ineffectual, if the Lands on the [East?] side of the Lake are not permitted to be granted, for those tracts which are now in