The Pattentees under NewYork, those who hold by Military Grants, as well as others who have Pattents in the common Way, think their title is indubitably good. The Governors of this Colony have had full authority to grant the lands quite to the West Bank of Connecticut River, ever since the Duke of York received his grant of the Colony. <A dread of the French and Indians from Canada, prevented for many years any grants or settlements being made in that part of this Province where these people are now settled. The Governor of New Hampshire who never had authority to grant one Foot of Land West of Connecticut River, his Government being bounded to the Westward by his Majesty's other Governments, finding this country an uninhabited Desert, upon the peace after the War before the last, laid hold of the opportunity, and ina very short time granted away this extensive tract of country, down to the waters of Wood Creek and Lake Champlain. A full information, has been at different Times, transmitted to your Lordship and your Predecessors in office, of the very unjustifiable manner in which those grants were made, in defiance of the earliest notice from this Government that Connecticut River was our Boundary. Your Lordship is possessed of such ample Information on this subject, that I will not presume to trouble you with any thing more upon it now, but to repeat my humble opinion or the necessity there is that these lawless People should be discouraged from entertaining any Hopes, but in the