CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

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We now therefore ask your Interest to promote said Design should you in your Wisdom thinkproper, We are,

May it please your Excellency Your Excellency’s most obedient

And most humble Servants

^ Ebenezer Dibblee Richard Mansfield

Joseph Lamson Christopher Newto:

Missionaries to the honorable Society Ebenezer Kneeland James Scovilfor the Propagation of the Gospel in Richard Clarke Samuel Andrews

Christopher NewtonJames ScovilSamuel AndrewsBela HubbardJohn TylerSolomon Palmer.

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PROCLAMATION

of the government of new-york, FOR SEIZING JAMES brakenridge, and others, for RIOTOUSLY

obstructing the partition of wallumschack patent.

By the Honourable Cadwallader Colden, Esquire, his Majesty’s Lieutenant-Governor, and Commander in Chief of the Province of New York , andthe Territories depending thereon, in America ,

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, in Pursuance of an Act of the Legislature of this Provinceentitled, “An Act for the more effectual collecting his Majesty’s Quit-Rents inthe Colony of New York , and for Partition of Lands in order thereto,” Com-

missioners and a Surveyor were lately appointed to make Partition of certain Lots, Parcel of a largerTract of Land, situate on the East Side of Hudson’s River, in the County of Albany , calledWallum-schack, granted to James De Lancey , Gerardus Stuyvesandt, Esquires, and others, by LettersPatent under the Great Seal of the said Province, bearing Date the fifteenth Day of July, Onethousand seven hundred and thirty-nine ; and the said Commissioners, in the Execution of theirDuty, being employed in surveying the said Lots of Land, were, on the nineteenth Day of Octoberlast past, interrupted and opposed by a Number of armed Men, tumultuously and riotouslyassembled, for the declared Purpose of preventing the said Partition, who, by open Force, compelledthe Commissioners Surveyor, to desist from the said Survey, and by Insults and Menaces, so intimi-dated the said Commissioners that apprehensive for the Safety of their Persons, they found it neces-sary to relinquish any further Attempt to perform the Trust so reposed in them, by which violentand disorderly Proceedings, the said Rioters, in Contempt of the Law, and in Defiance of theAuthority of this Government, have not only broken the King’s Peace , and set a dangerous Exampletoothers, but have defeated the Operation of the said Act, in the Division of the Land aforesaid :And it appearing by sufficient Evidence, that James Brackenridge, Jedediah Due, Samuel Robinson,Nathaniel Horner, Henry Walbridge, and Moses Robinson, all of the said County of Albany , Yeomen,were among the principal Authors of and Actors in the said Riot and Breach of the Peace : In