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LOCATION NOT DESIGNATED. John Peek

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[Endorsed] Januay 25t 1775 Read in Council, and the further Consideration thereof postponed

LORD DARTMOUTH TO LT. GOY.

[Lond. Doc. XLIV.]

Sir,

COLDEN

Whitehall Dect 10th 1774.

I have received your letters N°.6 & 7 and have laid them before the King, together with the Petition & affidavit inclosed in the first of them, relative to the lawless and violent proceed-

890 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

ings of such of the Inhabitants of the Township of Bennington, as claim lands in that Township under Grants from New Hampshire. '

The circumstances attending those Disturbances are very alarming ; and if it be true that those parts of the Province are now an Asylum for Fugitives from every other part of America, it certainly is become an object that deserves the fullest attention. I cannot however be of opinion that the assistance of the King's Troops ought to be called for until every other effort has been tried & found insufficient.

Whenever the matter comes to that Issue it will certainly be Duty of the King's servants to advise His Majesty to strengthen the hands of Government by an application of a Military Force, but I do not at present see sufficient ground for the adoption of