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THOMAS CHANDLER TO GOY. MOORE .
May it please your Excellency
According to your Directions on Saturday Last, 1 liave with the assistance of M r Stone, Computedthe Number of Men fit to bear armes in the Limits of A Proposed Regiment, to be under my Com’mand, and find the same to be about six Hundred, that we account for.
And in the Limits of the Propos d Regiment for Col° Bayley, about Three hundred,from your Excellency’s most Dutifull Obedient, and Very Humble Servant
Thomas Chandler.
To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore Baronet.
Order of the Governor and Council of New York, that the Claimants under New Hampshire ,Sue out their Grants by a limited Time, to prevent the Preference of other Petitioners.
At a Council held at Fort George , in the City of New York on Friday , theSixth Day of June 1766.
Present.
His Excellency Sir Henry Moore , Baronet, Captain General, &*.
Mr. Smith, Mr. Read,
Mr. Watts, Mr. Morris,
Mr. De Lancey.
The Board having under Consideration, sundry Petitions of Lands; lying on the West Side ofConnecticut River, which were formerly granted by Letters Patent under the Seal of the Provinceof New Hampshire , but were then actually, and do now by his Majesty’s Order in Council of the20 th day of July 1764 appear to be within the Limits of this Province: It is ordered by his Excellencythe Governor, with the Advice of the Council, that all Persons holding or claiming Lands under suchGrants, do, as soon, as may be, appear by themselves or their Attornies, and produce the same,together with all Deeds, Conveyances , or other Instruments by which they derive any Title or Claimto the said Lands, before his Excellency in Council; and that the Claims of such Person orPersons who shall not appear, and support the same as aforesaid, within the Space of three Monthsfrom the Date hereof, be rejected; and the Petitions already preferred for the said Lands forthwithproceeded upon; also that Notice hereof be given, by publishing this Order three Weeks successivelyin one or more of the public News-Papers printed in this City.
(Here follows)
An ordinance for establishing a Court of Common Pleas, and a Court of GeneralSessions of the Peace in the County of Cumberland in the Province ofNew York .
11 July 1766: Read in Councill & approved of and ordered to pass the Seals.