the free use of such authentick documents, conveyances, records, and other writings, as may be useful in ascertaining, prosecuting, and establishing the claim under this Colony, whenever it may be necessary to refer thereunto for those purposes.

3d. That the whole expense of defending the claim of this Colony to such lands as shall be granted to your Honours Memorialist and his associates; and also the whole expense attending the exercise of jurisdiction in the pro posed settlement, shall be defrayed by your Memorialist and his associates.

4th. That the purchase of the native right shall be made wholly at the expense of your Memorialist and his associates.

5th. That your Memorialist and his associates shall pay into the, Publick Treasury of this Colony ten thousand pounds lawful money, in such annual payments as your Honours shall see meet to appoint; the first annual payment to be made within one year after the date of the grant or quit-claim.

Respecting a grant upon the conditions aforesaid, your Honours Memorialist begs leave, with due submission, to suggest, that as it will not interfere with any preceding grant, either from the Crown of Great Britain or any of the Colonies, It of consequence cannot involve this Colony in any dispute or litigation of any kind whatever; and that as all expenses respecting the defence of the claim, the exercise of jurisdiction, and the purchase of the native right, will fall upon your Memorialist and his associates, the Colony Treasury cannot be impoverished by such a grant being made; but, on the contrary, will be much en riched by the ten thousand pounds to be paid into it, the income of which may serve to give additional support to the College at New-Haven or the inferiour but important Seminaries throughout the Colony, or may greatly contribute to the publick emolument, in such other way as to your Honours superiour wisdom may seem meet. More need not be added here, as your Honours will doubtless see the benign aspect the foregoing Plan has upon the interest of the Colony in general; and,

Your Memorialist, therefore, humbly prays your Honours for a release or quit-claim to him and his associates, of the right of the Governour and Company to the lands before mentioned, beginning at the Western boundary of Pennsylvania and extending from thence to the River Mississippi together with your Honours right to the said River, upon the foregoing conditions; or, if your Honours should not approve of the conditions aforesaid, that a Committee of your Honourable Body may be appointed to confer with him, and the grant aforesaid be made upon such conditions as may be agreed to. And your Memorialist, as in duty bound, shall ever pray, &c.

EBEN. HAZARD.

Hartford May 27, 1774.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, May 1774.

In the Lower House, the question was put, whether the prayer of this Memorial should be granted, and resolved in the negative.

Test,

WM. WILLIAMS, Clerk.

In the Upper House, the question was put, whether the prayer of this Memorial should be granted, and resolved in the negative.

Test,

GEORGE WYLLYS, Secretary.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM SIR JAMES WRIGHT, BART. TO THE EARL OF DARTMOUTH, DATED SAVANNAH, OCTOBER 13, 1774

MY LORD: In my letter of the 24th August No. 26, I mentioned that some Protests and Dissents were preparing in different parts of the Province which were not then completed. These were not sent to Town till lately, and only published in yesterdays paper, and which I now enclose; they have been wrote by the people themselves, just in their own way, as your Lordship will see by the style. However they certainly show that the sense of the people in this Province is against any Resolutions, and that those attempted by a few in Savannqh are held in contempt.

ADDRESS FROM THE COUNTY OF WORCESTER, PRESENTED TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOUR, OCTOBER 14, 1774.

To his Excellency THOMAS GAGE, Esquire Governour of his Majestys Province of MASSACHUSETTS BAY, and Commander-in-chief of the Kings Forces in NORTH AMERICA.

May it please your Excellency:

The people of the County of Worcester being earnestly solicitous for the peace and welfare of the Province in general, cannot view the measures now pursuing by your Excellency but with increasing jealousy, as they apprehend there has not, nor does at present exist, any just occasion for the formidable hostile preparations making on the Neck leading to our distressed capital.

It is a matter of such notoriety, that your Excellency must be sensible there was not the least opposition made to obstruct the introduction of the Kings Troops at their first landing, nor have the people since that time discovered any intention to disturb them, till your Excellency was pleased to order the seizure of the Powder in the Arsenal at Charlestown in a private manner, which occasioned the report that a skirmish had happened between a party of the Kings Troops and the people at Cambridge in which several of the latter fell; this caused the people to arm and march from divers parts of the country; but no sooner was that report proved false than they returned peaceably to their respective homes.

The inhabitants of the Province in general, and Town of Boston have never given cause for those cruel and arbitrary Acts for blockading their Harbour and subverting the Charter, by altering the Civil Government of the Province, which, however, this people are determined, by the Divine favour, never to submit to but with their lives, notwithstanding they are aggrieved at the Kings displeasure against them, through the instigation of artful and designing men.

This County finds it difficult to comprehend the motives for the present hostile parade, unless it be in consequence of some preconcerted plan to subject the already greatly distressed Town of Boston to mean compliances or military contributions. They are equally at a loss to account for your Excellencys conduct towards the County of Suffolk as in your Answer to their Address, remonstrating against fortifying the only avenue to the Town, which by that means may, in some future time, be improved to cut off the communication between town and country, and thereby reduce the miserable inhabitants to the greatest straits, your Excellency is pleased, in answer, to observe, that you had not made it easier to effect this, than what nature has made it; if so, the country cannot conceive why this expense and damage of the Town to no purpose.

Your Excellency is likewise pleased to take notice of the general good behaviour of the Soldiers, but at the same time pass over that part, complaining of the detention of private property, and proceed to answer by way of quere, to which you would not permit a reply. This County are constrained to observe, they apprehend the people justifiable in providing for their own defence, while they under stood there was no passing the Neck without examination, the Cannon at the North Battery spiked up, and many places searched, where Ammunition was suspected to be, and if found, seized; yet as the people have never acted offensively, nor discovered any disposition so to do, till as above related, the County apprehend this can never justify the seizure of private property.

It is with great anxiety this County observes the wanton exercise of power in the Officers of the Customs at Salem and on board the Kings ships, respecting the article of Fuel destined for the use of the inhabitants of Boston who are obliged to have it with the additional charge of landing and reloading at Salem before it can proceed; when your Excellency must be sensible the Act, which is the professed rule of conduct, expressly excepts Fuel and Victuals, which may be brought to Boston by taking on board one or more Officers at Salem (without the aforesaid charge) while that destined for the Troops proceeds direct, free from the same. There are many other things which bear extremely hard on the inhabitants, while they are prohibited