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 ...

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 789
Several of the New Hampshire Grantees availing themselves
of this Order, applied for and obtained Grants of the Farms
they had setled and improved, while others confiding in the
Validity of their New Hampshire Titles, rejected the Offer with
Contempt, as appears by one of the Depositions referred to us,
wherein it was declared that Samuel Robinson in the Fall of the
Year 1765, made application in Behalf of himself and the other
Inhabitants of Bennington for a confirmation of that Township,
but this part of the said Township being included within the
Patent of Wallumschack, prior in Date to any Grant of New
Hampshire Westward of Connecticut River, Lieutenant Governor
Colden told Robinson other Lands should be granted as a Compensation for what they might loose by that Patent, which he
declined; and that the Inhabitants of Bennington soon after
came to a resolution to prevent any survey of their Township,
and to support their Possessions by Force even against any
Judgment at Law.
As a farther Manifestation of the favourable Intentions of
this Government towards the Grantees of New Hampshire, an
Order was made by the Governor in Council the 6th June 1766,
reciting that the Board having under Consideration sundry petitions for Lands lying on the West side of Connecticut River,
which were formerly granted by Letters Patent under the Seal
of the Province of' New Hampshire, but which were then
actually, and did by his Majesty's said Order of the 20th July
1764 appear to lie within the Limits of this Province, calling
upon all Persons holding or claiming Lands under such Grants,
to appear- by themselves or their Attornies and produce the
same, together with all Deeds Conveyances or other Instruments
by which they derived any Claim to the said Lands, and declaring that the Claims of such as should not appear and support
the same within the space of three Months, should be rejected:
which order was notified by its Insertion three weeks successively, in one of the public News Papers printed in this Colony.
The Grants of New York which comprehend any part of the
Lands of Bennington, are the Wallumschack Patent dated in
1739, the patent of Schneyder dated the 24th March 1762, and
the patent of Michael Schallata a reduced Staff Officer dated