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.

Thirdly; there are fifteen Townships granted by New Hampshire, and which have been confirmed by N. York. These proprietors, who above all things, have avoided to give umbrage to Govern, or disturb the tranquility in both Provinces, must surely be entitled to special indulgencies; but thro' the troubled State of the Country, great Part of these Townships remain still unimproved, and their case will be thought singularly hard, if they are to loose the unsettled parcels.

Fourthly; difficulties will also attend the provision that is to be made for the Officers and Soldiers, who are the objects of the Royal promise in the Proclamt» of the 7th Octobt 1763---I cannot comprehend in what way the value of their lands and improve ments is to be adjusted without expence to themselves; nor by what arguments they can ever be persuaded to dismiss their claims until they are actually vested with the equivalents. Besides many of -these Military Grants are now owned by other persons who have paid for their possessions and will never become volunteers in the cession in the expectation of other Tracts, while there is reason to apprehend, that the residue of the Land 'in the district, out of which they are to be satisfied, (free from claims) is not of sufficient value, its remoteness and quality considered to compensate for the surrender of what they hold by their Patents.