As a farther Manifestation of the favourable Intentions of this Government towards the Grantees of New Hampshire, an Order was made hy the Governor in Council the 6 June 1766, reciting that the Board having under Consideration sundry petitions for Lands lying on the West side of Connecticut River, which were formerly granted by Letters Patent under the Sea] of the Province of New Hampshire, but which were then actually, and did by his Majesty's said Order of the 20% July 1764 appear to lie within the Limits of this Province, calling upon all Persons holding or claiming Lands under such Grants, to appear by themselves or their Attornies and produce the same, together with all Deeds Conveyances or other Instruments by which they derived any Claim to the said Lands, and declaring that the Claims of such as should not appear and support the same within the space of three Months, should be rejected: which order was notified by its Insertion three weeks successively, in one of the public News Papers printed in this Colony,

The Grants of New York which comprehend any part of the Lands of Bennington, are the Wallumschack Patent dated in 1739, the patent of Schneyder dated the 24th March 1762, and the patent of Michael Schallata a reduced Staff Officer dated

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the 30t6 May 1765, all prior to the application made in behalf

of the Bennington proprietors. The last of these is subse- .

quent but a few Days to the order of the 224 May 1765, in favor-of the New Hampshire settlers, but the survey of that 'Tract must have been prior to that order, and if it is true as now alledged, that there were several settlers within the Limits of that Grant at the Time issued we doubt not this Fact was then unknown to Government ; For whenever such settlements were discovered it has been usual to reserve the Land to be granted to the Possessors, who in many Instances refused to permit their Farms to be surveyed, and have hitherto declined taking their Grants, which nevertheless remain to be issued when applied for, of which there is a notorious Instance in the case of Remeniber Baker, who has nevertheless distinguished himself as a Leader in the late violent opposition to the government of this Colony. )