And as they now belong to an infinity of persons, in and out of the Provee, & valuable considerations have been paid by the original proprietors, never to be recovered back on account of the changes which time has made in their circumstances & situations, how is it possible, My Lord, to frame any Law for the distribution of justice to the present claimants " or what prospect is there that such a number of persons, of all Ranks, Civil and Military, can be brought to submit to any project to diminish Estates that are held under the Royal Grants-- that were bought for large sums, and some of which have been improved & maintained at a still greater expence 2? Indeed, My Lord, the task would be a very difficult one, if-we had only to deal with the first Patentees, but it has become unspeakeably more arduous and delicate, as these Jands are now claimed by creditors and bona fide purchasers, under all the modes of alienation, as well as by the original proprietors and their Heirs.

And that your Lordp may more fully comprehend the reasons that induce me utterly to despair of the co-operation of the Assembly, I beg leave to particularize a few of the many obstacles to the proposed act, that rise to my view :

First--Loud Complaints -will be made of the Crown's reseizing of unimproved lands by those who have had New York Patents since the Royal decision in 1764 for Tracts not before granted by N. Hampshire. For these Proprietors will insist that no advantage can equitably be taken of their unsettled Parcels, since the non improvements are to be imputed to the violence & power of the general opposition of the N. Hampshire Planters in the vicinity--and the justice of their claims to an exemption from the forfeiture seems to be strongly inforced by the neglect of