' 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)

The Governour some time the fore part of last winter Requested the General Assembly to make a Grant to Defray the charge of exploring Connecticut River to its Source and making a plann of it to send to England (as I am informed) to shew that the River Comes more from the East than has hitherto been Immagined, and so much from the East as not to Touch the 45th degree of Northern Latitude ; that the Assembly declining to make the Grant, the Governor at his own, and the charge of some others who subscribed sent Mr Benjz Whiting and Mr Grant on the business with a Letter from his Excellency Recommending it to all persons of Connecticut River (Friends to the Government of New Hampshire) to contribute towards enabling

'the Parties to proceed and Effect the business. Representing that it was likely the Effect of the Survey would be the extension of the Jurisdiction of New Hampshire to those Lands &e, that in consequence of this Letter considerable Contributions