I have to inform your Lordship of the death of Joseph Reade Esq". one of his Majesty's Council in this Province, I also inclose to your Lordship three affidavits which I have

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lately received, which confirm our belief that the disorders above mentioned are promoted by people of the greatest power in the Province of New Hampshire.

SURVEYOR-GENERAL'S CERTIFICATE

OF RESERVATIONS IN FAVOUR OF THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE OCCUPANTS, SETTLED BEFORE THE 22ND DAY OF May 1765.

I Avexanper Corpen Esq ; Surveyor General of Lands for the Province of ew York ; do hereby certify, to all whom it may concern, that on or about the twenty second Day of May, One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty five, I received an attested Copy of an Order of the Lieutenant Governor of the said Province, made in his Majesty's Council for the said Province, on the said twenty second Day of May, directing me, until further order, not to make Return of any warrant of Survey, then already, or which might thereafter come to my Hands, of any Lands actually settled by Persons under the Grants of the Government of Vew Hampshire Westward of Connecticut River and Eastward of Hudson's River, unless for the Persons in actual Possession thereof : That I thereupon forthwith gave Instructions tomy several Deputies to survey and make return to me of all such Lands so possessed, as might be included within the Bounds of any Tract they had or should receive Warrants to Survey : That my Deputies did accordingly survey and make return to me of several Tracts so actually possessed as aforesaid, which in pursuance of the above mentioned Order in Council, were reserved, in order to be granted to the Possessors: That several Persons being so possessed, did refuse to permit my Deputies to survey the Lands they had improved ; some of which Lands, as they, could not be returned to me, may have been granted to other Persons than those in actual Possession under the Grants of New Hampshire: But that of such Grants there are few Instances, Reservations having in almost every Grant been made for the settlers, even when they refused to discover their actual Possessions ; and that in all other Cases of Lands so possessed as aforesaid, the Regulation established by the above mentioned