The Patentees claiming, by virtue of the same Grant, sometimes in One part of the Country, and sometimes in another, as they are driven from one place to In other grants we find the same another by others claiming the same lands with more certainty. persons joined in several Grants with others, which Grants were intended for diiferent Tracts and in appearance seem to be so, and yet by their present claims they take in the same Lands within the

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bounds of their several grants. The Earl of Bellamont was succeeded, after Queen Anns ascension to the throne by her Cousin the Lord Cornbury. The Grants of large tracts upon trifling quitrents, that were made during his Lordships administration at least equalled those of all his predecessors put together.

Indeed his Gentlemen (as I am well Lordship's inclinations were so evident to everybody at that time that two assured) had agreed with his Lordship for a Grant of all the lands in the Province, at a Lump, which

were not at that time granted, and that the only thing which prevented the passing of that grant was, that those Gent" apprehended that the Grant would of itself appear so extravagant and would create so many enemies, that they would not be able to hold it.

During the Lord Cornbury's administration an act was likewise passed, repealing the act above mentioned for vacating the extravagant Grants of Land by Coll Fletcher. The vacating Act passed not long before King Williams Death, and lay in the offices in England without any notice taken of it, till after the Lord Cornbury was removed from his Government then the vacating Act was confirmed and the Act repealing it was ;