That. they are not entitled to the Rights and Privileges of Freeholders from the Defects. of their present Charters, nor can they for the same Reason support any Action for their Landed Property when it is injured or withheld from them, That while these distressing Circumstances fall heavy on Individuals they at the same Time obstruct the Growth and further Cultivation of these New Counties impede the equal Administration of Justice, and prevent the payment and Augmentation of your Majesty's Revenue from the Quit Rents.

Your Petitioners therefore most humbly beseech your Majesty. to take their. case into your Royal and Paternal Consideration. and Graciously to direct that the Several Townships which they hold under the Charters of New Hampshire within the said, Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester may be forthwith granted, and confirmed to them under the Great Seal of the said Province of New York on the usual Quit Rents and half the Fees of Office agreeable to the generous Plan formed by his Excellency the Governor of the said Province.

- And your Petitioners as in Duty Bound shall ever pray &«a

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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 823

Thos Chandler, Joseph Lord, Samuel Wells, Noah Sabin, Nathn Stone, Israel Curtis, Ephraim Ranney, Crean Brush, William Patterson, Malcom Church, Daniel Renney, Oliver Wells, Joshua Stoddard, John Norton, William Willard, John Grout, John Kathan Junr, Oliver Church, Elijah Prouty, Oliver Cook, John Sargent, Alexander Kathan, Benjamin Gorton, Samuel Knight, David Church, Jacob Spalding, John Baldwin, Benjamin Butterfield Junior, Samuel Brown, Isaac McCune, Ebenezer Knap, William McCune, Jonathan Church, James Smith, Philip Paddleford, Robert Brageal, Timothy Church, Nathaniel Church Junior, Sawyer Wright, Ebenezer Fox, Richard Prouty, Josiah Allen, Stephen Greenleaf, Benjamin Butterfield, Willard Stevens, David Joy, Daniel Tuttle, Isaac: Beard, Joshua Parker, Danicl Sabin, Samuel Wheat, Mathew Cushing, Amos Halle, Jonas Snow, James Courins, Noah Sabin Junior, Jonathan Houghton, Noah Cushin, Dennis Lockling, Daniel Houghton, Cyrus Houghton Junior, John French.