John Avery Jonathan Gilson ¢ Isaac Patterson John Avery Junior Joseph Arwin Benjamin Patterson Samuel C, Avery Abial Gooddale Michael Metcalf Joseph Phippney Caleb Spencer Bildad Andros Esqr Joseph Stoddard William Hill Amas Carpenter Jonathan Burk Gidion Bagger |! Carpenter Jesse Burk Thomas Davis Timothy Carpenter So. Burke Thomas Davis junr Jidiah Prior

Amos Carpenter Junr Charles Crook Andrew Crook Eleazer Harlough _ Levy Androes_-- - Abel Carpenter Jacob Abby Bridges Medcalf Webb James Crafford Charles Holding John Gould

Silas Burk | - : Simeon Burk

The names of such of the Inhabitants of Rockingham who subscribed the New Hampshire Petition

David Pulsifer Richardson Nathaniel Davis Cornelious Dorfee Samuel C Bur Ezra Turner

Ephram Wheelor Jonathan Bur Jeremiah Allen Peter Bellows Nathaniel Bur Timothy Clark

LORD DUNMORE TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH.

[ Lond. Doc. XLIII. ]

New York, March 9b, 1771. Exrracr.

The troubled state of the North Eastern parts of this Province seems to deserve your Lordships immediate attention. I speak of that: large District between Hudsons river and the Lakes George and Champlain on the West and Connecticut River on the East ; and between the North line of the Massachusetts Bay and the 45th degree of Latitude, assigned for the partition between this and the Province of Quebec.

This is a fine country, capable of great cultivation, and of subsisting many thousands of useful subjects ; but before the Conquest of Canada was so exposed to the incursions of the

676 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

French, and the Savages in their Interest, that very few settlements weré made in it, except in that quarter nearest to Hudsons River