inhabitants, under Col. John Lydius:
'>0 HISTORY OF ADDISON COUNTY.
That discovering the imperfection of their title, they applied to and
obtained letters patent under New York. That many of the inhab-
itants (of Avhich your petitioners are) have since been compelled to
purchase the New Hampshire title to their lands, under a penalty
of being turned out of their possessions by a mob.''
iJlriTORY OF ADDISOX COUNTY; 51
CHAPTER V.
KEW HAMPSHIRE CHARTERS — CONTROVERSY WITH NEW YORK.
BENNixa Wextworth was appointed governor of New Hamp-
shire, in 1741, with authority from the King to issue patents of
unoccupied lands within his province. Claiming that that province
extended the same distance west as the provinces of Connecticut and
Massachusetts, that is, to within twenty miles of Hudson RiVcr, on
the third day of January 1749, he granted the charter of Benning-
ton, onthat line, to which he claimed the province extended, and
six miles north of the line of Massachusetts. This grant occasioned
a correspondence and mutual remonstrances between the governors
of New York and New Hampshire, in relation to the rights of their
respective provinces. The governor of New York claimed and con-
tended, that the grant to the Duke of York in the year 1663, which
was confirmed to him in the year 1674, after the conquest of the
Dutch in 1673, and extended to the west bank of Connecticut
River, settled the claim of New York.*
Notwithstanding the controversy between the govei iiors of these
two provinces, and the opposition made by New York, to the issuing
of grants by New Hampshire, Governor '.VtNi worth continued to
grant charters of townships, as applications were made for them.
During the following