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.

That your Petitioners have always been staunch friends to

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the interest of this Government particularly at the time of the unhappy Riots at Windsor and in the year 1770 chearfully subscribed a Petition to our Most Gracious Sovereign then circulating in this Country humbly praying that the Lands westward of the River Connecticut in the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester-should remain to the Government of New York, for the truth of which facts they beg leave to refer your Excellency to the Gentleman who circulated the said Petition, one of whom is now at New York.

Your Petitioners therefore confiding in your Excellency's Humanity and the Tenderness of the Honourable board most humbly pray in behalf of themselves and their associates that your Excellency will be favourably pleased to Grant to your Petitioners His Majesty's Letters Patent for the residue of the Township of Guilford and also for the said Tract of Twelve thousand acres in the Names of the respective persons mentioned in the Schedule subjoined to their former Petition.