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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 759
Tlhlmas Chandler to said Offices in my room & sted-And I beg leave
J.unr Esquire
Recoimmnended. to Recommend Thomas Chandler juir Esqr as the
best qualified, & who will be, as I apprehend, as
well accepted in that Seat on the Bench, as any person in the
County, that I have acquaintance with or knowledge of.
I have yet to crave your Excellencys Patience & Leave to
Recommend to your Excellencys Favour M' John
Mr John Grout
Recommended to Grout attorney at Law, who hath Suffered much by
Favour
persons Enemical to this Government, & to him on
account of his-firm attachment to it, & endeavours to maintain
good Order & Justice therein.-Truth itself Obliges me to say,
That his Practice as an attorney in this County, has always
Entitled him to the good opinion of the Court &'the best Gentlemen in the County as I apprehend, altho Riotous persons &
parties, Friends to New Hampshire, & enemies to good Order
have given him much Trouble, which he has born with great
magnenimity, & Strove in a Legal and Dispassionate way to over
come. Your Excellency being perfectly Humane will Delight in
Protecting him.
And now Hoping the Tumults & Confusions in this County
made by the People of New Hampshire are nigh coming to an
End by your wise administration which will much Rejoyce him,
who with Profound Respect, ask's leave to subscribe himself,
Your Excellency's Devoted
Obedient and most Humble Servt
Mr Tryon JOSEPH LORD.
(Endorsed) Read in Council Feby: 28th 1772.
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JUDGE CHANDLER TO GOV. TRYON
May it please your Excellency
I have to acquaint you with a Rietous affair that happened in
the County of Cumberland on the 27th Day of January Last,
Vizt a Numnber of Persons from the Province of New Hampshire to the Number of about 70 or 80 assembled themselves
together came into Putney in the County of Cumberland went