I have yet to crave your Excellency's Patience & Leave to Recommend to your Excellencys Favour Mr John Recommented to Grout attorney at Law, who hath Suffered much by wee persons Enemical to this Government, & to him on account of his firm attachment to it, & endeavours to maintain good Order & Justice therein.--Truth itself Obliges me to say, That his Practice as an attorney in this County, has always Entitled him to the good opinion of the Court & the best Gentlemen in the County as I apprehend, altho Riotous persons & parties, Friends to New Hampshire, & enemies to good Order have given him much Trouble, which he has born with great magnenimity, & Strove in a Legal and Dispassionate way tb over come. Your Excellency being perfectly Humane will Delight in Protecting him.

And now Hoping the Tumults & Confusions in this County made by the People of New Hampshire are nigh coming to an End by your wise administration which will much Rejoyce him, who with Profound Respect, ask's leave to subscribe himself, Your Excellency's Devoted

Obedient and most Humble Servt Mr Tryon ; JoserH Lorp.

(Endorsed) Read in Council Feby: 28t* 1772.

JUDGE CHANDLER TO GOV. TRYON

May it please your Excellency .

I have to acquaint you with a Rietous affair that happened in the County of Cumberland on the 27th Day of January Last, vizt a Number of Persons from the Province of New Hampshire to the Number of about 70 or 80 assembled themselves together came into Putney in the County of Cumberland went