Countenance and support that can be shown consistent with Justice: for I can with truth say that the conduct of that Province in General, & more especially in the present moment, has been such as justly intitles its well disposed and peaceable Inhabitants to His Majesty's particular Favor and Indulgence : and I have the satisfaction to assure you that their conduct is seen in a very favorable Light, and the Wishes they have in general expressed that all violence might be avoided, & the Sovereign authority of the Supreme Legislature might be supported, are graciously considered by the King as Evidences of their Respect & Affection for his Majesty, & of the just sense they entertain of the Rights of the British Empire.

Tam &*

DartTMourTH. Lieutenant Gov' Colden.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 891

QUTRAGE COMMITTED ON THE REY. BENJAMIN TOUGH BY THE BENNINGTON MOB.

To the Honourable Cadwallader Colden Esquire his Majesties Lieutenant Governor of the province of New York and the Territories thereon depending in America &°.

In Councin

The Petition of Benjamin Hough one of his Majesty's Justices of the peace for the County of Charlotte in Behalf of himself and other Magistrates & Inhabitants of the said County of Charlotte, and the County of Albany. Most humbly Sheweth

That with great Grief of Heart your Petitioner finds himself reduced to the Necessity of renewing his complaints against a Confederacy of lawless Rioters; known by the Name of the Bennington Mob, who by a series of the most daring outrages, have so long disturbed the Peace and abused the Magistrates and Inhabitants of the County of Charlotte, and the North eastern District of the County of Albany with Impunity.