His Majesty's Order declaring the Limits of the two Provinces, is dated the 20t July 1764, and on its arrival which was not until about the 10t April 1765, was communicated by the Governor to the Council, and a Proclamation issued on that Day notifying the same throughout the Province--In Consequence whereof numerous applications were made principally by reduced officers, and some by his Majesty's subjects of' thig Province for Lands on the East side of Ifudson's River ; and that no Setler under New Hampshire might be dispossessed by Grants in that Quarter, this Government thought fit by Order so early as the 224 of May 1760, to direct that the Surveyor General should make no Return on any Warrant of Survey then, or which might thereafter come to his Hands, of any Lands possessed _ under the Grant of New Hampshire, unless for the persons in actual Possession thereof.

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Several of the New Hampshire Grantees availing themselves of this Order, applied for and obtained Grants of the Farms they had setled and improved, while others confiding in the Validity of their New Hampshire Titles, rejected the Offer with Contempt, as appears by one of the Depositions referred to us, wherein it was declared that Samuel Robinson in the Fall of the Year 1765, made application in Behalf of himself and the other Inhabitants of Bennington for a confirmation of that Township, but this part of the said Township being included within the Patent of Wallumschack, prior in Date to any Grant of New Hampshire Westward of Connecticut River, Lieutenant Governor Colden told Robinson other Lands should be granted as a Compensation for what they might loose by that Patent, which he declined; and that the Inhabitants of Bennington soon after came to a resolution to prevent any survey of their Township, and to support their Possessions by Force even against any Judgment at Law.