the 24th of July 1767, the King in council, adopted an order
on the subject. This order, after reciting at length the report " of
the committee of council for plantation affairs," says " His Majesty,
with the advice of his privy council, doth hereby strictly charge,
require and command, that the governor of jSTev*' York, for the time
being, do not (upon pain of His Majesty's highest displeasure) pre-
sume to make any grant Avhatever, of any part of the lands de-
scribed in said report, until His Majesty's further pleasure shall be
known concerning the same."
While the controversy was pending between the two governments,
and before the King's order settling the boundary was known, a
collision arose out of it in Pownal. But the facts in the case pre-
sented a different question from that, which soextensively prevailed
afterwards among other patents granted by New York. One called
the Hoosick patent was granted as early as 1688. The charter of
Pownal, when granted by New Hampshire, included part of this
patent ; and the New Hampshire grantees claimed possession of
certain lands, on Avhich several Dutch families had settled under the
Hoosick patent. In August 1764, the sheriff of Albany, in pur-
suance of the proclamation of Governor Golden, before mentioned,
hearing that the New Hampshire claimants had dispossessed several
of the Dutch families, and were about to drive off others, went in
pursuit, taking with him " two of the justices and a few other good
people," and arrested '' Samuel Ashley, who called himself a
deputy, Samuel Robinson, a justice of the peace," and others,
■who claimed the land, and committed them to the jail