CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 359
Tour Petitioners therefore in behalf of themselves and their associates Humbly pray your Honourwill be favourably pleased to take the above proposal into your wise consideration and thatthe same may be Erected into Counties & Towns by the names above mentioned with thepriviledges usually Granted to other Counties in this province and under the Restrictionsappointed by his Majesty’s Instructions
And Your Petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray.
Tho s ChandlerIsaac ManDavid WoosterRobert Harpur
New York 9 th October 1765. Dan 1 Jones.
1765 Oct r 9. Read in Council and referred to a Committee.
To the Honorable Cadwallader Colden Esq Lieut Governour and Commander in chief inand over his Majesty’s Province of New York and Territories thereon depending inAmerica In Council Oct r 1765.
The Subscribers your Honors’ Petitioners Humbly shew That whereas there has been a Petition preferd to your Honors desiring that the Northern part of the Province of New York may be set offand divided into five separate Counties, and as it has been represented to your Petitioners thatyour Honors Judge that it is unnecessary that there should be so many Counties at Present in thatpart of the Province of New York , considering their Infant State Your Petitioners thereforeHumbly Beg leave to suggest to your Honors that Wee Imagine it will be nece sary for y e wellordering of Government, considering the large Number of People that are setled upon the Landsupon Connecticut River and Nigh thereto within said Province , that there shoud be some Estab-lishment made in order to detect Vice and Recover the Just dues of the People inhabiting that partof said Province . Your Petitioners Humbly pray that if it be agreeable to your Honors that theremay be a County Erected within that part of the Province of New York aforesaid which lies adjoin-ing to Connecticut River and to Extend as far West from said River til it comes to the Height ofHand about twenty six miles West of said River and to Extend as far North as y e 45 th degree ofNorth Latitude and to Extend as far South as the Province of Massachusetts Bay and that the same
be Erected i„to a County by the name of Colden and that .be County Town may be at a placeknown b, the Name of New H.msteed and Vested with sneh Pnv.ledges as other Count.es tn ft*Province Enjoy, or otherwise grant Belief as yonr Honor shall Think proper all of which ,s Hnmbly
Submitted by your Petitioners. T l 10 . Chandler John Katliam
Zedekiah Stone Elijah Williams Jum
Sam 1 Wells Nathaniel Powars
Dan 1 Jones Josy h Wait
Nath" Stone Benj* Wait
Ja 3 Roger Simon Stevens
1765 Oct 15‘h. Read and referred to the same Comme. to whom the former Petition on the
same Subject is referred.