NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 663

suppressing all future Riots and Disorders of the like dangerous Tendency.

GIVEN under my Hand and Seal at Arms, at Fort George, in the City of New York, the first Day of November, One thousand seven hundred and seventy, in the eleventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the

Faith, and so forth. . Dunmore. By His Excellency's Command,

Gw. Banyar, D. Secry.

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PETITION SFROM CUMBERLAND AND GLOUCESTER TO THE KING.

To the King's most Excellent Majesty.

The Petition of the Subscribers in behalf of themselves and others, Inhabitants of the Province of New York in the Counties of Cumberland & Gloucester, on the West side of Connecticut River.

Most humbly Sheweth ©

That your Majesty's Colony of New York was anciently bounded to the eastward by Connecticut River, the Grant from

King Charles the Second to James Duke of York in 1663] 4 comprehending in express terms; "All the lands from the West

side of Connecticut River to the East Side of Deleware Bay ;"

While your Majestys Government of New Hampshire, the Limits

whereof were first ascertained about the year 1739 is confined

in its @xtent westward to your Majesty's other Governments. That notwithstanding this clear designation of Boundary to each Province New Hampshire proceeded to make Grants of the

Lands westward of the River Connecticut, and the matter at