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.

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OFFICERS FOR "GLOCESTER COUNTY.

List of Judges, Assistant Justices and Justices of the peace for the County of Gloucester appointed by Commission Dated March 1770. ;

John Taplin °

Samuel Sleeper >} Judges.

Thomas Sumner

Abner Fowler

Samuel Penox } Assistant Justices.

Israel Smith,

Thomas Chamberlain

John Peters Justices of the peace. Jonathan Sumner

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DRS. AUCHMUTY AND COOPER TO LIEUT. GOV. COLDEN.