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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. ‘373
before His Majesty’s Proclamation in regard to New Hampshire and the only Settlem ts made on anyof those twenty one Townships are Intrusions, and have been proved to be so, on Patents granted bythis Governm 1 some of thirty others of sixty years stands. The merits of 28 have been alreadyexamined before the Council and am assured are not concerned in this Petition , four of which havepassed the Great Seal, three more are ready but were stopped on this occasion and the rest aresurveying and laying out as fast as the Surveyor Gen 1 can find proper men to execute his orders sothat it should seem as if the only persons who had not complyed with their engagements with theCrown should think they were most aggrieved, and expect to obtain particular marks of HisMajestys Favor by Fraud and Imposition ; neither Robinson nor his Associates who under a pretended Hampshire right settled upon some of the old Patents in this Province have ever thoughtproper to make use of that indulgence which this government had shew d to them by confirmingtheir settlements to them, as is already mentioned in this Letter, or have ever applyed to theirGrants on the contrary they have made a merit of their Stubbornness, in order to disquiet the mindsof their Neighbours, and stir up a seditious spirit among them from whence they are in expectationof reaping some Benefit.
The Complaint in the 10 th Paragraph of the distance from the Capital has been already Answeredby what has been related of the new County of Cumberland, which was erected on purpose to servethat part of the Country, but even in such a trifling circumstance as tins they have not confinedthemselves to Truth, for it will appear on inspecting the Map , that they have exaggerated the distanceat least one quarter.
I have now gone through all the articles in the Petition except the last, which is so extraordinaryin itself that I presume nothing is expected in answer To it. From the whole tenor of the Petitionand the number of Falsehoods it contains, it appears to have been the offspring of a very bad Heartand I think there is the greatest reason to apprehend that the iiead must likewise have beenimpaired. How else should a Man of one of the lowest and meanest Occupations at once set upfor a Statesman and from a Notion that the wheels of Government are easily managed and conductedas those of a Waggon, take upon him to direct the King’s Ministers in their Departments. As formy Part I have been taught to treat with so much respect, those whom His Majesty is pleased tohonor with his Confidence, that I am persuaded they will do that which is best for his Service andthe good of his People, without standing in need of such able Councellors as either M r . Robinsonor myself. I have the honor to be with the greatest respect
My Lord Your Lordship’s most Obedient and humble Servant
H : Moore.
THE SAME TO THE SAME.
[Lond. Doc. xl.]
Fort George, New York , 10 June 1767.
My Lord After so long a letter as I have already addressed to your Lordship in answer toRobinsons Petition , it is a matter of concern to me that the Petition which accompanied it from theSociety for propagating the Gospel puts me under the necessity of saying anything more on the sameSubject. That a man of so notorious a Character as Robinson should deviate from Truth in anyrepresentation of Facts, is no kind of Surprize to those who know him here, but that so respectable