That in the month of June last, a number of disorderly persons seated in the township of Windsor in the County of Cumberland, assembled in a riotous manner, & by threats obstructed the proceedings of the Court of Common pleas; pretending that the Magistrates & Civil Officers were unauthorized ; that no obedience was due to them ; that the Jurisdiction belonged to the Government of New Hampshire ; That your Majesty's Royal Order aforesaid would soon be rescinded ; and the Lands thereby declared as part of your Majesty's Colony of New York, be decreed to appertain for the future to the Province of New Hampshire.

That residing near the borders of the two Governments, the said riotous persons have eluded the publick justice, by flight into New Hampshire ; and confederating with divers inhabitants there; have promoted a spirit of disorder and disobedience to the authority of your Majestys Government of New York, by Signing and procuring the subscriptions of many persons in both provinces to a Petition, the avowed purpose of whieh i is the change of Jurisdiction.

That your Petitioners are persuaded this measure is calculated to elude the punishment due to those lawless trangressors: to promote the interests of individuals, who have made a traffic of

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the New Hampshire titles, and to aggrandize the family of the late Governour Wentworth, for whose benefit reservations of Land were made in all the numerous Grants which he thought proper to pass. While your Petitioners have the greatest reason to think it will if adopted prove highly dissatisfactory and prejudicial to the Body of Inhabitants in general, who beginning to feel the eminent advantages of a settled Government, view with concern even the prospect of an alteration that may again expose them to the difficulties and hardships, with which they so lately contended, at the same time that it must be inevitably productive of uncertainty and confusion in titles and peculiarly grievous to a great number of your Majesty's Subjects, who confiding in the Stability of your Majestys said royal order, have purchased and seated themselves in that country from an immediate view of their being connected with and under the protection of this your Majesty's Government of New York.