668 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

PETITION FOR THE CONFIRMATION BY NEW YORK-OF CERTAIN N. H. GRANTS.

To His Excellency the Right Hon»!e John Earl of Dunmore Captain General & Governor in chief in & over the Province of New York & the territories depending - thereon in America, Chancellor & vice Admiral of the Same. The Petition of the Subscribers inhabitants of certain lands on the West side of Connecticut river in the Province of New York. Humbly Sheweth

That from the amiable character your Petitioners have repeatedly had of the benevolence of your Lordship's disposition, as well as permanent, qualities & distinguished abilities, they are induced to approach your Lordship with their Supplications.

That a Controversy hath unhappily subsisted for some years between the Governments of New York and New Hampshire, relative to the validity of the Grants formerly issued by the latter, which has proved extremely detrimental both to the interest of tle Crown and this part of the Country, by impeding the Settlement thereof. ;

That your Petitioners have respectively seated themselves and families upon the Lands so granted to them on the West side of the river Connecticut, cultivated and improved the same in pursuance of and agreeable to their said Grants, conceiving their Title to be good and effectual untill after the arrival of His Majesty's royal Order in his Privy Council of the 20t day of July 1764, ascertaining the eastern Limits of the Province of 'New York to be at the western banks of the said river Connecticut.