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634 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
ORDER IN COUNCIL FOR ERECTING THE COUNTY OF
GLOCESTER.
AT a Council held at Fort George in the City of New York on
Wednesday the twenty eighth Day of February 1770
PRESENT
The Honoble Cadwallader Colden Esqr Lieut: Govr &c
Mr Watts Mr Smith
Mr DeLancey Mr Cruger
Mr Reade Mr WTallace
M1 Morris Mr White
The Petition of the Proprietors or Inhabitants of the Lands on
the West Side of Connecticut River, to the Number of one
hundred and twenty Persons in the whole, was presented to the
Board and Read. Setting forth, among other things, that there
is a vast and valuable Country between Connecticut River and
Lake Champlain, and extending from the County of Cumberland
on the South, *to the Latitude of forty five Degrees North,
capable -of subsisting many Inhabitants, to the great Increase of
the Strength and Prosperity of the Empire in general, and the
Province of New York in particular. That the Establishment of the County of Cumberland, as it conduced to the
Maintenance of good Order, has greatly promoted the Improvement of that District, which is daily advancing and will soon
become an important and flourishing County: That such of the
Petitioners as live to the Northward of Cumberland are exposed to
Rapine and Plunder from a lawless Banditti of Felons and Criminals who fly thither from other Places. And tlfat it is impossible
to obtain Justice while they remain a part of the County of Albany
as the Magistrate can have no Eye upon those distant Parts, nor
can the Petitioners procure officers to come thither, or they in
their present state go to them: That there are upwards of seven
hundred souls to the Northward of the County of Cumberland,
and that such is the Quality and situation of the Land that under
proper Encouragemeit, and by the Help of the Overflowing of
the neighbouring Colonies the whole Country may in a few years