NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 679

Order in Council hath been hitherto strictly and duly observed : And I do further certify, that Ihave not made any Return of the Survey of any Lands known to be held under any Grant of the Government of Vew Hampshire, Eastward of the Ridge of Mountains commonly called or known bythe Name of the Green Mountains in order to be granted, unless for the Grantees or Persons holding or claiming under the Grants of Vew Hampshire, except eight Tracts of Land, containing five hundred Acres each, allotted by the late Governor Wentworth for himself, four of which Tracts were surveyed for Lieutenant Thomas Etherington, and the other four of which Tracts were surveyed for Lieutenant William Leslie, reduced Officers, who had both served in Vorth America during the late War. Given under my Hand, this fourth Day of March, One Thousand Seven hundred and seventy-one. ALEXANDER Gaara Surveyor-General.

PUBLIC DISORDERS FOMENTED BY N. HAMPSHIRE.

A. City of New York ss--Exsengzer Core Aged Fifty nine, being duly sworn maketh oath. That between Seven and Eight years ago he purchased some Rights in a Tract of Land called Shaftsbury, under a,Grant thereof by the late Governor of New Hampshire--That he settled thereon six years ago last spring, and was one of the first who settled in Shaftsbury under the Grant aforesaid That between this Deponents Purchasing and Settlement above mentioned, Governor Colden issued his Proclamation of the 28 Dect 1763, which was soon publickly known in that part of the Country.