Esqts Monro & Skeen being indisposed & living at a great distant the Expell'd people sent me word & I met them at Dr Clarks house in New Perth this day, Issued warrants to apprehend the New Hampshire rioters & traitors but their number & Situation in the mountains in such that I am of Opinion no Sheriff or constable will aprehend them That it will be highly necessary for His Majestys Peace & the relief of these distrest highlanders who fought valiently thro' the last campaign that His Excellency in Council Issue His Proclamation offering a reward for apprehending those abominable wretches That then some person of their own sort will artfully betray them This I only sugest in all humility but on the very Eve of a long hard winter it is very Schocking to see so many poor familys reduced to so great Distress and if they had not been hospitably entertained by the Rev'd Mt Clark & his people their Straits must have been exceeding great. An attempt will be made ina few days to arrest them & shall then advise you of the event am Sir

Your most Humble Servant Avexanper Mc Nacuton. New Perth Novt 12 1771. ' To Col: Fanning Secretary

748 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

MINUTES OF COUNCIL

RELATIVE TO THE GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE'S LETTER TOUCHING THE RIOTOUS BEHAVIOUR OF THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTEES.

[Counc. Min. XXVI.]

In Counciz November 13 1771.

His Excellency was pleased to communicate a Letter of the 19th day of October last, from Benning Wenthworth Esq? Governor of the province of New Hampshire, in Answer to a Letter from his Excellency the Governor of this province, complaining of an Exparte Survey of the River Connecticut lately made by the Government of New Hampshire, also informing Governor Wentworth of the Riotous Behaviour of Persons within this province claiming Lands under Grants of New Hampshire, and that the Riotous Spirit of those people seems to be greatly owing to the assurances they pretend to have received from Governor Wentworth that the Line will be altered so as to include the said claimants within the Jurisdiction of his Government-- in which Letter Governor Wentworth utterly disclaims any such or the like Assurances, and declares that'he* had invariably recommended implicit obedience to the Laws, and upon all occasions positively disavowed any connections with those people, and observes that he thought it unnecessary to consult this Government previous to the late Survey of Connecticut River, as that River is comprehended within the Limits of his own Government. rh