It only remains to say, that the more speedy the Royal doch: sion; the more liberal the adopted principles, the greater the Bounty to those New Hampshire settlers who are within the N.

842 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

York Patents, and the more extensive the eonfidence given to his Majesty's servants of this Government, the more readily will the present storm be dispersed, and a fertile Country be reduced to a state of cultivation and improvement. -

Notwithstanding all this, I stand ready to make any experiment with the Assembly which your Lordship shall be pleased to point out. I am to request in the mean time that your Lordp will excuse any imperfections in these sentiments as they proceed from a sincere desire to give you all the information in my power with that candour, which your commands and the confidence you honour me with, call for. The subject being unusually delicate and Difficult, I have made the proper enquiries respecting it, but in the use I have made of the information procured, I have preserved the free exercise of my own judgment, and the whole is humbly submitted to His Majesty's Great wisdom, and the sagacity of his ministers.

I am, with the greatest respect and esteem

My Lord Your Lordship's most obedient servant Wm Tryon. <> :

JAMES HENDERSON TO MR. MACKINTOSH. THE MOB DESTROY COL. REID'S SETTLEMENT AT OTTER CREEK. Dr Sir We are Sorry To Acquaint you that Last night We Were over Poured By more Than one Hundred men Then it was Demanded That We shoud Emediatly Turn out Which We Were obliged To Doo, other Ways have all our Baggage Comited To