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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.

be impracticable to distinguish them according to the different periods of Settling ; and that thesettlers would not accept of such partial tho’ perhaps equitable distinctions.

That a time be limited for all occupants to make their applications to Govern 1 , and in failure tobe excluded.

That the terms of the future instructions upon this subject be, as much as possible, absolute, andunaccompanied with conditional Clauses, that are dependant on the dilatory declaration or the con-sent of the interested Parties.

It only remains to say, that the more speedy the Royal decision; the more liberal the adoptedprinciples, the greater the Bounty to those New Hampshire settlers who are within the N. YorkPatents, and the more extensive the confidence given to his Majesty’s servants of this Government,the more readily will the present storm be dispersed, and a fertile Country be reduced to a state ofcultivation and improvement.

Notwithstanding all this, I stand ready to make any experiment with the Assembly which yourLordship shall be pleased to point out. I am to request in the mean time that your Lordp willexcuse any imperfections in these sentiments as they proceed from a sincere desire to give you allthe information in my power with that candour, which your commands and the confidence youhonour me with, call for. The subject being unusually delicate and Difficult, I have made the properenquiries respecting it, but in the use I have made of the information procured, I have preservedthe free exercise of my own judgment, and the whole is humbly submitted to His Majesty’s Greatwisdom, and the sagacity of his ministers.

I am, with the greatest respect and esteem My Lord

Your Lordship’s most obedient servant Wm Tryon.

JAMES HENDERSON TO MR. MACKINTOSH.

THE MOB DESTROY COL. REId’s SETTLEMENT AT OTTER CREEK.

D r Sir We are Sorry To Acquaint you that Last night We Were over Poured By more Than oneHundred men Then it was Demanded That We shoud Emediatly Turn out Which We Were obligedTo Doo, other Ways have all our Baggage Comited To The flames. Our Houses are all Brunt Doun.The Grist mill is All Put Down, The Mill Stones Brock and Tlirons in To The Creick, The Cornis all Destroed By There Horses, and When it Was Proposed That We Shou d Build houses and KeepPossion, They Threatned To Bind some of us To a Tree and Skin us Allive, Therfore We thinkits imposable To us To Live hear in Peace, Therefor as fast as Posable you most Acquaint TheColonel of the Contents and see What Most Be Done, it is imposable that We Can Stay Long hear Withsuch Treatment. This is all from your Humble Servant James Henderson

Oter Creek August 12 tl > 1773.

To M r Mackentosh at Crown Point.

ESQ. MUNRO TO GOV. TRYON.

THE MOB AGAIN BROKE LOOSE.

August 22 d 1773.

May it please your Excellency

I have only time to Inform you Excellency that the Mob has broke loose, a messenger broughtme word this minute that in few days the whole of my property would be burnt to ashes, few