1760, Montreal was surrendered to him ; and Que-
bec and every other French post in Canada having been conquered
and captured, the whole province, by the treaty which followed on
the 10th day of February 1763, was surrendered tO the British
government.
The French, having had uninterrupted possession of Lake Cham-
plain for nearly thirty years, not only claimed the control of its
waters, but the right to the lands on both sides of it, and made
grants of seigniories to favorite nobles and officers, and of smaller
tracts to others. The grants in the County of Addison Avere less
numerous than at the north part of the lake. As early as the year
1732, a grant had been made to one Contre Couer, Jun., lying on
both sides and including the mouth of Otter Creek. On the 7th
dayof October 1743, a grant was made to " Sieur Hocquart In-
tendant of New France," of a tract " about one league in front by
five leagues in depth, opposite Fort St. Frederic, now Crown Point,
bounded on the west by the lake, east by unconceded lands," north
and south the lines running east and west. And on the first of
April 1745, another grant was made to Hocquart, lying north of
and adjoining the other tract, three leagues in front on Lake Cham-
plain, by five leagues in depth. Both these, making four leagues
on the lake, and five leagues east and west, constituted the '■' Seign-
iory Hocquart," which extended from Willow Point, near the south
line of Addison, north, and included the whole of the towns of Ad-
dison and Panton, and is represented on