In the private suits depending on these questions between owners of lands along the lines of Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Jersey; in the discussions between these colonies and New York; in the controversies between New York and the claimants of lands along Lake Champlain under the French grants, and in the final settlement of these matters he was always employed as attorney, counsel, or commissioner, and always on behalf of the rights of his native State. In the disputes relative to the New Hampshire grants, he was considered the life and soul of the New York claim and claimants, and at him was aimed most of * the coarse wit and abuse which the Vermonters showered so bountifully wpon all their opponents. He conducted much of the correspondence with the agents of our colony in England, while the above disputes were pending before the King in council, or the Board of Trade, drew several of the reports made to the General Assembly by its committees, and the elaborate " State of the Rights of New York,' published by its order, and a most comprehensive but concise summary of the questions then agitated and about to be transferred to England for decision between New York and all her neighbors, in a letter to the celebrated Edmund Burke, who was then her agent. During the Revolution, when' _the dispute relative to "the grants" was agitated before Congress, as it was for several years, he was the main reliance of New York, and, although at. times a most difficult task, he sueceeded in preventing that body from yielding to the powerful influence of the ,Eastern States, all of whom took part with "the Green Mountain boys;" and New York from vindicating -her rights by force when irritated by some supposed concession