Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
To prevent, therefore, the fatal consequence that must follow so manifest a breach of public confidence, Iam to require your assistance, in putting, forthwith, those families, who have been thus dispossessed, into re-possession of theirlands and tenements, in the same manner, in which they were, at the time Mr. Fay and his son, waited on me at Wew York. Such a conduct on your part, will not fail of recommending your situation to his Majesty, and insure a continuance of my friendly intentions towards you. Wm Tryon, To the Inhabitants of Bennington, and the adjacent Country.
ORDERS ON CERTAIN LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE COUNCIL OF NEW YORK.
In Council September 8th, 1772.
His Excellency communicated three Letters he had received from John Munro, Esquire, one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Albany dated the 10th 17th and 21st August last, also a Letter of the 20 of the same Month from Ebenezer Cole and Bliss Willoughby, respecting the Conduct and Behaviour of the Inhabitants of Bennington, and the other adjacent Towns, since the Hearing before his Excellency in Council, and the opinion of this Board on the Petition of the said Inhabitants on the first day of July last: Which letters were
Read, and with the papers referred to therein, Ordered to be filed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 795
His Excellency also communicated to the Board a Letter of the 25h August last, which he had Received from the Inhabitants of Bennington and the Towns in its Neighbourhood, offering Reasons in Justification of their late Conduct, in dispossessing of their Habitations, several persons setled on Otter Creek, during the Time the Agents from the said Townships were attending his Excellency and waiting the Determinations of Government on their petition.' The said Letter being Read was Ordered to lie for further Consideration ; and it appearing that the persons so dispossessed were seated on Lands belonging to Colonel Reid, it is Ordered that an Extract of so much of the said Letters as relates to that Subject, be delivered to him for his Information.