That in pursuance thereof your Petitioners and their associates settled upon, cultivated, and improved the same at a very great expence conceiving their Title to be good until after the arrival of his Majesty's Royal Order in his Privy Council of the Twentieth day of July 1764 declaring "the West Banks of the River Connecticut from where it enters the Province of the Massachusetts Bay as far North as the forty fifth degree of Northern Latitude to be the boundary Line between the Provinces of New York and New Hampshire."

That in the year 1765, your Petitioners applied to Lieutenant Governor Colden for a Grant of the said Township of Guilford, which his Honor promised they should have as soon as the sundry Petitions Then presented for Lands in that part of the Country came under consideration.

That your Petitioners in the year 1766 Presented another Petition to His Excellency the Late Sir Henry Moore Baronet Praying a Grant and Confirmation under the Great Seal of this Province This Petition as well as the former being either neglected or mislaid your Petitioners presented a second in the year following but with the like ill success.

That your Petitioners rested some years without further application for a Grant till a Patent to Colonel Howard comprehending all the property that some of your Petitioners had in the world induced them to trouble your Excellency with Two Petitions lately presented, one praying a Grant to your Petitioners ~ and their associates of such part of the Township of Guilford as is not included within Colonel. Howards bounds such of your Petitioners as reside thereon or had any Claim thereto under the New Hampshire Title having settled with and given up or taken leases from Colonel Howard. And the other Petition praying for a Grant of Twelve thousand acres of Land therein particularly located as a Compensation for the Loss they sustained by Colonel Howards grant.