Hampshire Grants rendered them proportionably cheap, & the purchases of them were considered rather as gaming adventures than certain and substantial acquisitions.

And among these New Hampshire Grants we carefully distinguish between such as are improved, and those which from the little value set upon them, are not only unsettled, but their very situation not accurately known, except in their relation to others upon which they are described to abutt, and as they stand ranged upon a general Plan of an unsurveyed Territory.

Again, My Lord, with respect to the Townships which have the name of being settled, even these will upon examination be found to be but few, and the improvements on such slight estimation, that compensating them for their losses out of the unsettled Townships, or the unpatented part of the Country, will require no great proportion of the waste lands of the Crown.

At.all events, these waste lands alone will be more than sufficient for the indempnity of all such of the N. Hampshire Grants, as can set up an equitable pretension to His Majesty's favourable notice, especially as the Crown can besides, ease the Grantee by deferring the payment as well as reducing the quantum of the quit Rents, and give a still further reiief by commanding that the New Patents issue upon moderate Fees to the officers of the © Governt, and without any to His Governor, if this should be thought reasonable.

Your Lordp may rest assured that of all the N. Hampshire Grants interfering with Patents under N. York, there are none considerable for their improvements, except that part of Hindsdale which was granted under the Royall Mandamus to Coll. Howard, and the Township of Bennington and one or two more in that vicinity ; & I am persuaded, that the main difficulty will Jay in satisfying the settlers in these Townships, and that His Majesty's Grace to the other N.