That from the best information your Petitioners are able to collect, tho' the settlement began within three years, there are already thirty five Families in Socialborough, and twenty more have made Improvements, & are expected to remove thither the ensuing Spring ; the chief of whom have agreed to take Titles for their Farms under this Government.

That in the three Townships of Durham, Grafton, and Chesterfield, which adjoin each other, and extend from Socialborough Southward, there are Ninety six Families actually settled, who all hold their Estates under this Government.

That in Chatham, which is the next Town adjoining Chesterfield towards the South, there are settled Fifteen Families ; & in Eugene, which adjoins it onthe West, Forty. In Princetown, which adjoins Chatham on the South, Seventy Families ; and in the West Camden which adjoins it on the West, Twelve Families.

That those making in the whole near two hundred Heads of Families, chiefly live at a convenient distance from Socialborough, and the most remote of them not exceeding Forty miles ; and have already the advantage of a tolerable road, thro' which loaded Carts have passed from Socialborough to Albany the last summer.

That Col. Reids settlement, which is furthest North and which consists of about Fifteen Families, is at no greater distance from Socialborough than thirty Miles and Major Skene's within Twenty Miles.

That from these circumstances your Petitioners hope it will appear that this Township is well situated for the County Town, and not only convenient to the greater part of the present Inhabitants, but will continue to be so to the Country in general (as far as tothe said East Line from the mouth of Otter Creek,) when it becomes populous and fully improved. fs