And that it is impossible to obtain Justice while they remain a part of the County of Albany as the Magistrate can have no Eye upon those distant Parts, nor can the Petitioners procure officers to come thither, or they in their present state go to them: That there are upwards of seven hundred souls to the Northward of the County of Cumberland, and that such is the Quality and situation of the Land that under proper Encouragement, and by the Help of the Overflowing of the neighbouring Colonies the whole Country may in a few years

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be under actual Cultivation: And therefore the Petitioners humbly pray that a new County may be constituted to the Northward of the said County of Cumberland.

On reading and due consideration whereof it is ordered by his Honour the Lieutenant Governor with the advice and consent of the Council that his Majesty's Attorney General of this Province do forthwith prepare and lay before his Honour the Lieutenant Governor in Council the Draft of an Ordinance Erecting into a separate County by the Name of Glocester, with such Powers as are necessary for the due Administration of Justice within the same, All that certain Tract or District of Land Situate lying and being to the Northward of the County of Cumberland : Beginning at the Northwest Corner of the said County of Cumberland : and thence running North as the needle points fifty Miles: thence East to Connecticut River ; thence along the West Bank of the same River as it runs, to the Northeast corner of the said County of Cumberland on the said river and thence along the north bounds of the said county of Cumberland to the Place of Beginning: And that the Township of Kingsland be by the said Ordinance declared and appointed the County Town.