We the subscribers proprietors and claiments in and of sundry townships, lately granted by Governor Wentworth, in the western parts of the hten supposed province of New-Hampshire, do hereby fully impower our trusty friends and fellow partners in those interests, Samuel Robinson, Esq; Ebenezer Cole, Jeremiah French, Benjamin Ferris, Samuel Hungerford, Ebenezer Fisk, John Brooks, John Sherrer, Samuel Keep, Partridge Thatcher, Abraham Thompson, Edward Burling, Benjamin Townsend, Tunis Wortman, Peter Clapper, John Burling, Joseph Hallet, Thomas Hicks, Esq; and David Matthews, Esq; for us and in our behalf and stead, to take and pursue all and every needful and proper measure and step, by application to His Majesty or otherwise, to obtain a full confirmation to us of said lands, on such reasonable terms as may be; hereby granting to them and to any and every three or more of them, full power of substitution. Witness our hands, in New-England, November, 1766
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Green
Published: 1766
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Subjects: Boundaries; Great Britain; Great Britain. Sovereign (1760-1820 : George III); Land grants
Notes: Title from text on p. [1]

Power of attorney for the petition to the British crown of settlers in what is now Vermont, asking relief from the claims of New York. Often issued with the petition with title "A petition to His Majesty King George the Third", dated "New-England, November, 1766" and probably printed by Thomas Green, Hartford.

Imprint suggested by Sabin.

Signatures: [A]² ([A]1 verso, [A]2 blank)

Cf. Evans 10451.

Cf. Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (suppl.), 2499.

Sabin 98998n.