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the practicability and impracticability of those, we have now submitted will depend in great measure upon the acquiescence on one hand and the obstinacy on the other of those whose different claims we have stated but if the plan of accommodation we have chalked out, shall in the General outline of it meet with your Lordships approbation it is all we can presume to hope for and it must be submitted to your Lordships to advise His Majesty to take such steps thereupon as to your Lordships shall seem meet and expediént. We are My Lords Your Lordships most obedient and most humble Servants Whitehall Dect 34 1772 DartmoutTu SoaME JENYNS Bameer Gascoyne . GREVILLE GARLIES
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LORD DARTMOUTH TO GOV. TRYON. [Lond. Doc: XLIII.] Sir
By the Packet that sailed from New York in November, I received your Dispatches N's 1, 2 & 3, and have laid them before the King.
I have already acquainted you, in my letter of yesterday's date, that the State of the District between the Rivers Hudson and Connecticut would probably become the subject of a seperate letter, in consequence of a Report of the Board of Trade; and therefore I shall decline taking any other, notice, in this place, of the continuance of the disturbances on the Lands in that district, than barely to express my hope, that the questions which have occasioned those disturbances, will shortly be determined in a manner that by giving satisfaction to all parties, will be more effectual to restore quiet, than the interposition of any Military Force, which ought never to be called in to the aid of the Civil authority, but in cases of absolute and unavoidable necessity, and which would be highly improper if applied to support possessions, which after order issued in 1767 upon the petition of the proprietors of the N.