I tho't it Proper to subjoin the Following, vizt That I cannot find, in this Riot, any Gentlemen, Majestrate or officers were encouragers, abbettors or assistants; so far from that, they upon their first hearing of it, Gave a Laudable Testimony of their abhorrence of it. And when inquiry was making by us upon the very West Bank of the River (so nigh them) Gentlemen Spectators expressed their abhorrence of their doings, neither had we the least opposition or Disturbance given us. Mests Bellows & Olcot Two of the next justices of the Peace in the County of Cheshire, New Hampshire Government exerted themselves, on this Occasion, and Ex Officio, Issued their warrants apprehended some, brought them before them--Bound to their appearance (nigh the number 30) at the next Superior Court, to be held in Cheshire County, there to answer for their unlawfull assembling & other misdemeanors. It is with pleasure I give your Excellency this Information & doubt not it will be alike acceptable to, and Please your Excellency. If your Excellency is desirous of further Information & more particular, the bearer can give it, vizt Mt John Grout. I. am your's to command & Most Obedient Humle Serv=t
JosEpH Lorp. To his Excellency William Tryon Esq?
Governour New York. (Endorsed) 1772 Feby: 28. Read in Council.
NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS 767
ORDER OF THE GOV8S OF THE N. Y. COLLEGE FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THEIR 'TOWNSHIP OF KINGSLAND.
At a meeting of the Governors of Kings College m the City of New York on Monday the 17 Day of February 1772 at the House of Richard Hull.