Besides, My Lord, as to Brattleborough and Putney, they are both confirmed under New York, and so Hinsdale might have been, if the occupants, either from an unwillingness to pay the quit rent, or a slight of their Interest, had not neglected to make themselves and their case known to this Governt, until a part of their Township was granted to Coll : Howard, who brought over the Royal order for a grant of Ten thousand acres, and agreeable to the privileges given him in the Mandamus made his Election of that spot.

To me therefore it appears clear, that no person can justly avail himself of a Massachusets title out of the line assigned for its North Boundary in 1739, and I submit it therefore to your Lordp*whether it will not be inexpedient to excite applications to the Crown for compensations ; and to guard ag*t frauds, I must observe, that as some of the New York Patents extend several miles beyond the partition agreed to at Hart-

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ford, an ill use may be made of the generosity of the Plan by a concert between the New York Patentees, and the Massachusett's Possessors. to set up a very extravagant demand of fifty acres for every three that are improved by the latter, beyond the partition, and within the letter of the New York Patents, the Proprietors of which have made no improvements there, as I have already observed, and who, (the extent of their Grants remaining out of controversy considered with the smallness of the rents they are chargeable with) ought to be content, though they should receive no allowance. ; But the chief objection that will be raised against any Law grounded upon the plan proposed by the Lords of Trade will relate to the second and third articles of it, which respect the disposition of the Country to the Northward of the Massachusett's Bay.