CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
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quieted in such possession, without being bound to any other condition of quit rents or otherwise,than what is contained in the original Grant .
That some short and effectual mode be established, by act of Legislature or otherwise, forascertaining by the Inquest of a Jury, the state of possession, settlement and Improvement, uponall lands within the said district, claimed under grants made by the Govern ,s of New Hampshire or New York , and that all such Lands, which shall by the verdict of such Jury appear never tohave been possessed or improved, as also all other Lands, which have not been granted, bedisposed of in such manner as the King shall think fit to appoint for the disposal & granting ofwaste lands, within the Province of N. York, provision having been first made for an equivalentto such of the Claimants of Land, under Grants from New York within the old Massachuset’sTownships, in manner as before directed, and also for making good to the Commissioned and nonCommissioned Officers and Soldiers, the amount of their several allotments, under such warrantsof survey as they may have already received, in consequence of the Royal Proclamation of 1763.
These, Sir, are in general the Propositions which have been suggested by the Board of Trade,and approved by his Majesty in Council, and it will be a great pleasure to me to find by your Reportthat they are satisfactory to all parties, and can be carried into execution without difficulty orDiscontent.
MORE RIOTS.
Phillip Nichols of Socialborough in the County of Carlotte in the Province of New York beingof Full age Deposeth and Saith.
That lie in Company with his brother Purchased a Tract of land in the Township of Socialboroughsome years Past, and by their Industry have cleared and Cultivated such a .Part thereof as wouldafford them a Comfortable Maintainance could they Enjoy it Peaceably, and the Deponent furthersaith, as he was Traveling the Road not Far from his Farm in the month of April last Past, wherehe was attacked by a man, one of those that call themselves the Mob and with a Club that he hadin his hand Beat the deponent very much both with the club and with his Fist, soon afterwards oneSilvinas Brown and William Post, came to tire Deponent when he was at Work in his Field and Toldthe Deponent he had no Business there and that lie should not work there no more, and ordered thedeponent to pull down the Fences he had Put up with these and sundry other threatens the Depo-nent left the Field and the said Brown and Post went to Putting down the Fences and laid the Fieldwaste; soon afterwards the said Brown, Post and one Michael Whitney Took Possession of theDeponants Farm and will not suffer the Deponant to go on it, being Deprived of Benefit of thelaw in this Part of the Country the Deponant is obliged to Work by days Work to Get his Breadand Further Saith not.
Philip Nichols.
Charlotte County ss. Personally came before me the aboveSubscriber Phillip Nichols and made solemn oath to theTruth of the above Deposition. Before
Benja. Spencer Jus ce Peace.
In Council April 28 1773. Mr. Chief Justice Horsmanden ordered to issue his warrant for thearrest of the above rioters.