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

Government to aid them in repelling this violence, which it must:

be confessed, they have repeatedly implored as essential to their deriving any benefit from their grants; and

Secondly; and even as to such of the New York Patentees whose claims interfere with prior Grants under N. Hampshire;

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they too indulge an unshaken confidence in their Titles, and are encouraged in it by the common suffrage of the Colony--May I not be permitted to say more?

The two Provinces contending about this partition, it was referred to the decision of the Crown. The King was pleased in 1764 to declare the west Banks of Connecticut River to be the Eastern Boundary of New York, and this considered with reference to the Grant of the Province to the Duke of York in 1664, which conveyed to his Royal Highness all the Lands from the head of Connecticut to Delaware, together with the whole of the River Hudson, which is between them, what room was there for questioning the Right of this Colony to issue Patents for those lands? And being issued, the Patentees will most assuredly assert and maintain their Title in all the Forms in which they can be justified by the Law of that Land.