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. The dangerous Tendency of such Disorders calls loudly for the Exertion of the Civil Authority, and it is by the advice of his Majesty's Council that Inow recommend this as matter highly deserving your consideration, and that you will after the fullest Enquiry as to the Facts, and Sufficient Proof of the Force, give the Petitioners the Relief directed by the Statutes of forcible Entry, or such other Redress as the case shall appear to you to Require Transmitting to me as soon. as may be a particular account of your proceedings in consequence hereof with such examinations as shall be taken before you. _ To Philip Skeene, John Munro, Patrick Smith and John McComb

' Esq?s Justices of the Peace for the County of Albany or any two or more of them or any of the other Justices of the

County.

' NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 721

JUDGE WELLS TO ATTORNEY GENL. KEMP.

Brattleborough 18th Septem: 1771. Sir,

As I presume Information of Every movement of the Government of New Hampshire to obtain the Lands on the west bank of Connecticut River to be annexed to that Government will be agreeable to you and the better enable this Government to disconect their planns of Incroachment I give this Information (Vizt)