CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

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what passed at that time and from the Behaviour and Conversation of M 1 ' Wells that it was an Actof Benevolence and Humanity in M r Wells to Deane and his two sons without which this Deponentverily believes they must have suffered greatly unless they had been relieved by Charity as theyappeared to this Deponent to be strangers and Friendless in this City and further this Deponentsaitli not.

Jas Duane.

Sworn the 28 th day of September }

Anno Dorn: 1770 Before me. )

(Endorsed) Deposition of James Duane respecting the Complaint of Governour Wentworth’sagainst Judge Wells .

PROCLAMATION FOR APPREHENDING CERTAIN RIOTERS.

By his Excellency the Right Honourable John, Earl of Dunmore, Captain General andGovernor in Chief, in and over the Province of New-York , and the Territoriesdepending thereon in America , Chancellor, and Vice Admiral of the same

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas in pursuance of An Act of the Legislature of this Province, entitled An Act for the mereeffectual collecting his Majesty’s Quit-Rents in the Colony of JVew- York , and for Partition of Lands inorder thereto-, Commissioners and a’Surveyor were appointed to make Partition of certain Lots,Parcel of a larger Tract of Land, situate on the East Side of Hudson’s River, in the County of Albany ,called Wallumschaack , granted to James He Lancey, Gerardus Stuyve.sant , Esquires, and others, byLetters Patent under the Great Seal of the said Province, bearing Date the fifteenth Day of July ,One thousand seven hundred and thirty nine: And the said Commissioners in the Execution oftheir Duty, being employed in surveying the said Lots, were on the nineteenth Day of October , Onethousand seven hundred and sixty nine, interrupted and opposed by a Number of armed Men, tumul-tuously and riotously assembled for the declared Purpose of preventing the said Partition, who byopen Force compelled the Surveyor to desist from the said Survey, and by insults and Menaces, sointimidated the Commissioners as to oblige them to relinquish at that Time, any further Attemptto discharge the Trust reposed in them: And whereas the Proprietors of the said Patent, and otherLands held in Virtue of the Grants of this Province, finding Claims against their Right, set upUnder the Government of New-Hampshire, did cause divers Ejectments to be brought for Tryal ofthe Title to the said Lands, and at the Circuit Court held for the City and County of Albany , inJune last, obtained three several Verdicts by special Juries; irom whence it was hoped that theriotous Spirit would subside,' which had so long prevailed, to the great Injury of that Part of theCountry: Whereupon the Owners of the said Patent of Wallumschaack , directed the Commissionersto resume and complete the Partition aforesaid ; who on the twenty sixth Day of September now lastpast, in the Execution of the said Trust, were again opposed and prevented from effecting thesaid Partition, by a riotous and tumultuous Body of Men, openly avowing, in Opposition to the Titleand Jurisdiction of this Province, that those Lands were held by them under New-Hampshire; andInformation being given me, that such repeated Acts of Violence have chiefly arisen from anExpectation that his Majesty’s Royal Decision in Privy Council of the twentieth day of July, 1764,