Jacob Marsh Esq' Amos: Chamberlain, Jeremiah Gardenier, Daniel Walker, Philip Nicolls, Thomas Brayton, and Daniel Washburn all of the same County, were laid before the Board, whereby it appears that the Riotous proceedings of some of the Settlers in the said County of Charlotte do not only continue but have so far increased that they have Erected two Fortresses in the said County, one at Onion River and the other at Otter Creek, and openly threaten the Lives: and Properties of all those who Profess to maintain Peace and' good Order, and are Friends to this Government, and the said Petition humbly Praying his Honor to take the Case of

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the Distressed Inhabitants of that part of the Province into Con-

"sideration, and afford them some speedy and effectual Rélief, without which many of the said Inhabitants will be. compelled to leave their Settlements and be thereby utterly ruined--And the said Benjamin Hough being called in and Examined, and being withdrawn. The Council, after maturely considering the Frequency and Violence of these Disorders, humbly advise that his Honor do apply to his Excellency General Gage for a Military Aid of two hundred Men to support the Civil Magistraey in Keeping the Peace of the said County and its Vicinity.

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GEN. GAGE TO LT. GOV. COLDEN.

Boston Sept: 19th 1774. Sir I.am to acknowledge the Receipt of your Letter of the 7th September, with a minute of the Council held at New York the 1st Instant, and a Copy of a Petiticn and Complaint of Benjamin Hough Esq', in behalf of. himself, and other Officers of Justice, and Inhabitants of the County of Charlotte, therein inclosed. It wou'd have been very agreeable to me to have complied with the application, you are pleased to make me in consequence of the above, for a military aid of 200, or 150 men,*to be employed in the Support of Civil Government in said County; but _» Governor: Tryon having made a like Requisition. to General 'Haldimand, which he thought proper to decline complying with,