With regard to the lands proposed to be granted to other persons claiming under the New Hampshire Grants, but who have made no settlement or improvement whatever the execution of what is submitted in their case as well as in the case of the Residue of the Lands which will remain for his Majesty's disposal, within this district, must be suspended until the country has been surveyed with a view to proper Reservations of Woodlands for the supply of masting & timber for the Royal Navy according to the directions already given for that purpose; and we are of opinion that the Instructions to be given to the _ Governor of New York in the latter case cannot be too explicit and precise in order to guard against those irregularities & abuses which we are concerned to say have but too much prevailed in the exercise of the powers given to his Majestys [governors] in America, for the granting of lands to the great prejudice of his Majestys interest to the discouragement of

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Industry and m many Instances to the apprehension of the subject by the exaction of exorbitant & unreasonable Fees We are my Lords your Lordships most obedient and most humble Servants HiILisporoucH SoaME JENYNS E. Exior Jonny Roperts Whitehall Wo. FirzHeRBERT June 6, 1771. Tuomas WHATELY

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GOVERNOR TRYON TO JUSTICES SKEENE, MUNRO &e.

New York 24th August 1771. Gentlemen

The inclosed Copy of a petition lately preferred to me will inform you of a Riot and Breach of the Peace committed on the 11% of June near Argyle Town, by one Cockran and fourteen armed men, in violently assaulting and dispossessing Donald McIntire and the other complainants of Lands granted to them by this government and then under their actual improvement.