The Board are unanimously of opinion that his Excellency do urge his Majesty's Ministers the necessity of a speedy signification of his Majesty's pleasure on this subject ; and at the same Time intimate that from the Number and Extent of the Grants under this province to reduced Officers and Soldiers and others, as well as the Confirmations that have been made to those who had Grants under New Hampshire and others assoviated with them in the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester and Charlotte, and the numerous settlements that have been made under those patents and under Ancient Grants in the County of Albany, the Revocation of the Royal Decision of 1764, and the subjecting of the Country Westward of Connecticut River to the Jurisdiction of New Hampshire, appears to this Board to be a Measure unfriendly to the Rights of the Crown, dangerous to the Patentees holding under the Great Seal of this Colony, introductive of endless Contentions among the Inhabitants, and Subver sive of the Growth and Cultivation of @ very valuable Country, which but for the Disturbances in Bennington and the Neighborhocd of that Town, is now in a peaceful and flourishing

Condition, Sa nEREIEIRREEECan Acca ; GOV. TRYON TO LORD HILLSBORO'. [Lond. Doe: Vol. XLHOfI.] ¥ New York 7 Octob. 1772. My Lord.

The middle of last month I received an answer from the Inhabitants of Bennington & adjacent Townships, to my letter sent them from Albany, requiring them to put Coll Reid's Tenants in possession of the Tenements and Farms they had turned them