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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

& most immediate readiness exert every Influence of mine, that can possibly avail the King’s service,or tend to promote a peaceable and wise subordination to the Laws among any of his subjects—Ishall therefore assiduously embrace any useful Opportunity, to this purpose; Altho’ from my totalunacquaintedness of the Circumstances, that have attended this matter I dare not flatter myself withany prospect of much success in it, more especialy as people so far exasperated & deluded as toresist the due Execution of the Laws, are seldom capable of being perswaded or reason’d into sub-mission, unless proceeding from an Authority, that may strengthen and enforce attention—Whatevermay be the ostensible Claim of these people—They cannot have the least possible pretence to orhope of any Countenance or Favour from the Province of New Hampshire in any riotous & illegalConduct which is so effectually detested here, that I have not known the lest Contumacy take place,since my Residence in the Province —whence it can not but be expected that our public & privatedisaprobation will render vain, & confound ev’ry unlawful View from hence—my particular Testi-mony against all Violence & riotous disobedience is so fully known within the limits of my duty—that I am at a loss, by what means it can be more publickly testify’d—Aided by y e prudent Dispo-sitions of this province it has hitherto been effectually recogniz’d here, and I truely wish it maybe as usefully adopted whenever it is wanting.

Permit me, therefore to assure you, that I shall chearfully embrace & zealously pursue everymeasure for the King’s service and that I cannot be more obliged than in your suggesting to me,expressly; any efficient aid that may be in my power therein—I have the Honor to be very respectfully

Sir your most humble Serv 4

J. Wentworth.

P: S: Since the foregoing was wrote Two men ; from the Country referred to in your Letter,very unexpectedly arrived here: Upon enquiry of them, they have given me the inclosed attestednarrative, written by themselves.

I am yours as before &°

J. Wentivorth.

MEMORIAL OF GOV. WENTWORTH.

To the Honorable Cadwallader Golden Lieuten 1 Governor and Commander in Chief of HisMajesty’s Province of New York . And to the Honorable His Majesty’s Council forsaid Province & c & c &«.

The Memorial of John Wentworth Esquire

Sheweth That your Memorialist being by His Majestys Commission Surveyor General of HisMajesty’s Woods in all and singular His Majesty’s Colonies & Plantations in North America ; did invirtue of, and obedience to his said Commission, discover William Deane, Will m Deane jun 1 ' &Willard Deane Husbandmen all of Windsor in the County of Cumberland in the Province of NewYork trespassing against His Majesty by cutting felling & destroying many White pine Trees off fromLands in s d Town of Windsor; which Lands William Deane first aforesaid holds & possesses solely bya Grant or Patent from the King under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire , before hisMajesty’s orders in Council to annex the District on the Western Side of Connecticut River to theProvince of New York.

Your Memorialist further sheweth That he prosecuted the said William Deane W m Deane jun r