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.

That your Petitioners are now desirous of holding the same under the Government of New York, if they can obtain a confirmation of the Lands so by them respectively improved on moderate fees, & under the Provisoes, limitations and restrictions prescribed in His Majestys instructions to your Lordship, and that the other Lands situate westward of said river, not improved and cultivated as aforesaid, may be granted on the usual terms,

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as also the Lands on the west side of the green mountains to

such persons as applied for the same.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly pray that, as they have expended their worldly substance upon the Premisses, and are thereby rendered wholly unable to pay the Patent fees demanded by the late Governor in chief of this Province for the Lands so cultivated, that your Lordship will be favourably pleased in tender Compassioh to your Petitioners, and their helplessand distressed families to represent this their Case to His Majesty, not doubting but he will be graciously pleased to take the same into his princely Consideration, and give such relief therein as shall to him seem meet.