likewise fixed by the Grant, generally at the rate of one Bushel each hundred acres tho' some times at a higher rate and sometimes the rent was less, probably as the value of the land was represented.

And as these grants are the most profitable to the Lords of the soil, so are they to the Tenant, they being free of all those disputes about their Boundaries which have in a great measure rendered some others useless to the grantees.

S r Edward has left but a few exceptions to be made to this general

account given of his care of his Masters Interest.

Coll

Dungan who succeeded him, followed his

steps in the Granting of Lands, but the exceptions to the General Good Rule are both more numerous

and more considerable than in S Edmonds administration. While Coll Dungan was Gov the Duke of York became King by which the property of the Soil and the Quitrents became anexed to the crown, and have continued so ever since, but as the Revor

lution happened soon afterwards, there is nothing material to be observed 'till after that time.

After the Revolution the Grants of Lands to all ran in the Kings name, whereas before that they were made in the Gov rs name that granted the Land, and this method of Granting in the Gov ri name

was continued after the Duke of York became King, as it was before. Coll Slaughter the first Governor after the Revolution, found the Country in such confusion and lived so short a while that I think only one Patent passed in his time for Lands. But Coll Fletcher who succeeded him, made amends by the liberal hand with which he gave away Lands. The most extraordinary favors of former Gov" were but petty Grants in comparison of his