The Documentary history of the state of New-York; arranged under direction of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, secretary of State. By E. B. O'Callaghan ...

784 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
the interest of this Government particularly at the time of the
unhappy Riots at Windsor and in the year 1770 chearfully subscribed a Petition to our Most Gracious Sovereign then circulating in this Country humbly praying that the Lands westward
of the River Connecticut in the Counties of Cumberland and
Gloucester should remain to the Government of New York, for
the truth of which facts they beg leave to refer your Excellency
to the Gentleman who circulated the said Petition, one of whom
is now at New York.
Your Petitioners therefore confiding in -your Excellency's
Humanity and the Tenderness of the Honourable board most
humbly pray in Behalf of themselves and their associates that
your Excellency will be favourably pleased to Grant to your
Petitioners His Majesty's Letters Patent for the residue of the
Township of'Guilford and also for the said Tract of Twelve
thousand acres in the-Names of the respective persons mentioned
in the Schedule subjoined to their former Petition.
SILAH BARNARD
Guilford May the DAVID FIELD
Eleventh 1772 THOM AS CUTLAR
SCHEDULE of the names of the inhabitants of the Township
of Guilford.
David Field a Wife and 9 children James Cutlar Wife & 5 children
Silah Barnard ic 5 Edward Bennitt " 8 3 "
Thomas Cutler C 1 " Gersham Rice C 7
Asa Rice ( 7 - Enoch Stowell " 5 C
Francis Rice o C 6 " William Nicholls " 8 "
Peter Rice "( 4' Ebenezer Goodenough 5'
Silas Cutler " 11 " David Stowell " 4
Jotham Biglo " 9 " David Goodenough' 1
Alijah Rice " 4 " Samuel Nickolls " 5
Abiah Rogers CC 3 Paul Chase cc 2 "
Daniel Grew ( 7 William Biglo': 3 "
Hezekiah Iowell C 11 Cc Nathl Smith cc 5 cc
Shubeld Bullock C 3 John Barney C 4 "
Joel Biglo cC.2 CC Edward Barney 1 "
Mid Rice CC 1 -" Levi Goodenough " 4 CC
Nathl Carpenter " 8 " Ithamer Goodenough 6 cc
Daniel Boyden C 6 " Jonathan Hunt No Wife or child
Joel Cutler No Wife 7 " Seth Dwight C( CI
Samuel Mellendy a Wife 6 " Samuel Field C" "
Jedediah Woods " 9 " William Morris'C C
Moses Bixby No Wife 6 " Matthew Clesson " "