In contemplating the state of this Country, it is material to observe ; that there are one hundred and fourteen Townships of Six miles square granted by New Hampshire, besides those fifteen which have been confirmed by New York ; that the Patents under this Provee to officers and soldiers, & others included about six hundred thousand acres ; that many of those © grants interfere, and that it is almost impossible to ascertain what part of any N. Hampshire Patent is included in the Grants under N. York, for as N. Hampshire proceeded with preciptancy and

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without. previous Surveys to seize a priority of possession, and thereby countenance their Claim, there is the utmost uncertainty in the description and bounds of these Grants; and it is more than probable that they would be found upon a survey to interlock with each other or spread beyond the breadth of the Country in which they are supposed to be contained.

That these Charters, grant priviledges conformable to the popular Bias of the New England Colonies ,

That the Eastern part of this Country, comprehend [ed| in our New Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester, pay a cheerful submission, to this Governt and that none of the Inhabitants even on the most westerly Parts of the Counties of Albany and Charlotte, where the New York Patents chiefly clash with the New Hampshire grants, are desirous of a change of Jursdiction for any other reason, than because they conceive hopes of a support of their Charters and claims by the Juries and Courts