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

of Law in that Province. : _ Whence it results, and more especially as the malady consists in the double Grant of the same lands to different persons that independent of the original right of this Province and the Royal decision in 1764, there are the most cogent reasons for continuing under the Governt of New York and suffering the doctrine to pevail, that all the grants within it under the seal of N. Hampshire are void.

I feel therefore a very sensible pleasure in the reflection that I need be at no pains to assign any reasons to your Lorde against a Recision of the declaration of July 1764, for I collect from your Lordp's correspondence that His Majesty has no intention at present of changing the Jurisdiction.

Your Lordp has doubtless adverted to the smallness of the rent reserved to the Crown by these numerous Charters under N. Hampshire; and it is my duty to observe, that there is more than ground for mere conjecture, that they would under that Governt be totally lost Issued as they were without Surveys, and for Jands described without accuracy, and often clashing with each other, a handle would be made of their uncertainty for the purpose of eluding the payment and performance of the quit Rents and conditions by a spirit of litigation, which would