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

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Judgements of the Courts of Justice ; where only the Property of the Subjects can be determined.

I am with most entire submission

My Lord, ° Your Lordship's most faithfull & obedient servant CADWALLADER COLDEN

Rt Honble Earl of Dartmouth.

APPLICATION FROM CHARLOTTE COUNTY

TO BE ALLOWED THE PRIVILEGE OF ELECTING A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ASSEMBLY.

"To the Honourable Cadwalder Colden Esq' Lieutt Governor and Commander In Chief of His Majesties Province of New York &¢ &¢.

In Council The Petition of Sundry of the principal Inhabitance Freeholders of the County of Charlotte ;

Most Humbly Sheweth

That your petitioners for want of a Representation In General Assembly Labour under a Veriety of Inconveniences Which they think it Needless to Numerate to your Honour and the Honourable Board They therefore most Earnestly pray That -your Honourable Board will be pleased to order Writ to be Issued to the Sheriff of said County to cause two persons to be Elected to represent us in the present General Assembly ; and