Had your Excellency thought fit to apprize this Government of your Design they would I am assured readily have adopted the Measure, defray their proportion of the Expence, and join'd in transmitting the Map which by Intelligence has actually been sent to his Majesty's Ministers & which will now be considered asan exparte act, and not deserving of that Weight it might otherwise have had in the Contest.

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Tho' unacquainted as yet with the Merits of the Dispute, I am no stranger to the Disturbances it has produced since my arrival in this Government and see with the utmost Concern the consequences still likely to ensue, if the refractory and disorderly Behaviour of the Grantees under New Hampshire is not speedily check'd and punished. Regardless of Justice and in open defiance of the Laws they have lately by force dispossessed several persons setled under titles derived from this province prior to the Commencement of the Controversy and seem to be greatly encouraged by the assurances they ascribe to your Excellency, that the Jurisdiction will be altered so as to comprize within your Government the Lands they hold which in some places lie at no greater Distance than 16 or 17 Miles from Hudson's River. Ill grounded as these Reports I am willing to believe must be, yet as they are propagated with a view to exasperate a people already too much bent on Mischief, and appear to have had the intended Effect, I hope your Excellency will by some public Act, undeceive oe deluded Persons, and hy so necessary a Means cooperate with me in preserving the peace and Tranquility of that part of the Country until his Majs pleasure shall be signifyed in respect to the New Hampshire Grants within this Province.