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618 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
PETITION FOR THE CONFIRMATION BY NEW YORK OF
CERTAIN N. H. GRANTS.
To His Excellency the Right Honble John Earl of Dunmore
Captain General & Governor in chief in & over the
Province of New York & the territories depending
thereon in America, Chancellor & vice Admiral of
the Same.
The Petition of the Subscribers inhabitants of certain lands
on the West side of Connecticut river in the Province of
New York.
Humbly Sheweth
That from the amiable.character your Petitioners have repeatedly had of the benevolence of your Lordslip's disposition, as
well as permanent qualities & distinguished abilities, they are
induced to approach your Lordslip with their Supplications..
That a Controversy hath unhappily subsisted for some years
between the Governments of New York and New Hampshire,
relative to the validity of the Grants formerly issued by the
latter, which has proved extremely detrimental both to the
interest of the' Crown and this part of the Country, by impeding
the Settlement thereof.
That your Petitioners have respectively seated themselves and
families upon the Lands so granted to them on the West side of
the river Connecticut, cultivated and improved the same in pursuance of and agreeable to their said Grants, conceiving their
Title to be good and effectual untill after the arrival of His
Majesty's royal Order in his Privy Council of the 20th day of
July 1764, ascertaining the eastern Limits of the Province of
New York to be at the western banks of the said river Connecticut.
That your Petitioners are now' desirous of holding the same
under the Government of New York, if they can obtain a confirmation of the,Lands so by them respectively improved on
moderate fees, & under the Provisoes, limitations and restrictions
prescribed in His Ma;jestys instructions to your Lordslhip, and
that the otllerLands situate westward of said river, not improved
and cultivated as aforesaid, may be granted on the usual terms,