CONTROVERSY 'RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
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this Representation we present to jour Honour and humbly pray you will be pleased to transmitthe Same to their Lordships.
By Order of the Committee John Chambers Chairman.By Order of the Commissioners Paul Richard Chairman.City of New York 14 th : November 1753.
6 ll > June. Read in Council and approved of and the Council advised his Honour to transmit thesame to the Board of Trade as desired.
PROCLAMATION FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF LAND BETWEEN FORT EDWARD & LAKE
By the Hono ble James He Lancey Esq 1 ' His Majesty’s Lieutenant Governorand Commander in Chief in and over the Province of New York and theTerritories depending thereon in America .
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas from the Success of His Majesty’s Arms, in the Reduction of theimportant Fortresses at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and the very StrongWorks erecting at the latter, the whole Country along Hudson’s River downto Albany, will for the future be so effectually covered and secured from the Ravages of the Enemy,that the Inhabitants may return to their Settlements and abide there with Safety to their PersonsFamilies and Estates ; in confidence of Which, many have already returned to their Habitations.And Whereas the Fortress now erecting at Crown Point, is in great forwardness, and His Excel-lency Major General Amherst hath assured me, that he is determined it shall be so far finishedbefore the Troops go into Winter Quarters, as to answer the Purpose of covering and protecting theCountry: and as an Encouragement to Settlers , he has desired I would make known, that thoseWho with the leave of this Government shall now choose to go and settle between Lake Georgeand Fort Edward, will there find, three Several Spotts of cleared Ground, two of them capable ofcontaining half a dozen Families each, and the other not less than twelve: On which shall be leftstanding for their Convenience the Wooden Hutts and Coverings of the Troops that have beenposted there since the Beginning of the Campaign, which from the Footing we have now at CrownPoint, will be no longer necessary, and will be evacuated and left for the use of those who shallbecome Settlers . The first of the said Spotts is situated four miles above Fort Edward; The Secondat the Half way Brook; and the other three miles from Lake George. The Soil good and capableof Improvement, and all three well watered. The Halfway Brook being the Spott sufficient for adozen Families. I have therefore thought fit by and with the Advice of His Majesty’s Council toissue this Proclamation, Hereby inviting the Inhabitants who formerly abandoned their Dwellingsto return to their Settlements, and improve the advantages offered to them under the Protection andCover of the important Posts and Strong Fortresses above mentioned. And as an inducement tosuch as shall be inclined to settle on any or either of the three Spotts of Ground above described: Ido hereby promise his Majesty’s Grant thereof to any Persons who shall apply for the same, oncondition of immediate settlement thereof in the form of a Township, with a sufficient quantity of"Woodland adjoining for that purpose; and that I will use my Endeavours to obtain for the GranteesVol. iv 44