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. Hampshire Townships, may be of very doubtful title. I am ette.

DarTMOUTH.

PETITION OF THE PEOPLE OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY,

FOR THE RIGHT TO ELECT A REPRESENTATIVE.

To his Excellency William Tryon Esquire Captain Genera] and Governor in Chief in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America Chancellor and Vice Admiral

'of the same. In Council.

The Humble Petition of the Subscribers Freeholders and Inhabitants: of the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York.

816 CONTROVERSY. RESPECTING THE

Humbly Sheweth

That by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province of New York bearing date the nineteenth Day of March 1768 a Large Tract of Land containing near forty Townships each of the Contents of Six Miles square was erected into a County by the Name of the County of Cumberland and the Inhabitants thereof are in and by the said Letters Patent Declared to be vested with and entitled unto all and every the Powers Privileges and Immunities and subject to the same Laws Regulations and Government which the Inhabitants of any other county in the said Province of New York are entitled to do enjoy or are subject to as by the said Letters Patent or the record thereof to which We beg leave to referr may appear.