HISTORY OF VERMONT. 23 



wishes. Ill 1767, the king interposed to stop 

 the proceedings of the governor of New York- 

 Having recited a report from the lords of the 

 trade and plantation affairs, he .gave this royal 

 order to the governor :f " His Majesty doth 

 hereby strictly charge, require, and command, 

 that the governor or commander in chief of his 

 Majesty's province of New York, for the time 

 being, do not upon pain of his Majesty's highest 

 displeasure, presume to make any grant what- 

 soever of any part of the lands described in the 

 said report, until his Majesty's further pleasure 

 , shall be known concerning the same." rhe set- 

 tlers were much encouraged by this royal man- 

 date, and concluded it was designed, and would 

 be effectual, to prevent any further proceedings 

 in rcgranting the lands. But they were soon 

 full of complaints, that no regard was paid 

 to it, that the business was pursued with the 

 same avidity as before, and that the governors 

 of New York, while they were calHng upon 

 them to obey the royal orders and decisions, 

 paid no regard to those orders themselves. It 

 seems in fact to have been the case, that the 

 business of making new grants of the lands, was 

 too lucrative a job, to be easily or soon given 

 np ; especially, when the crown could neither 

 fully comprehend, regulate, or controul it. 



In 1772, Mr. Tryon, governor of New York, 

 made an attempt to conciliate the minds of the 

 inhabitants, to that government. With this 

 view* he wrote to the Rev. Mr. Dewey, and 

 the inhabitants of Bennington, and the adjacent 



•^July 24. 

 ■■ May 19. 



