order to be laid

before his Majesty, with a List of the Patentees, and an account of the Quantity of Land contained in their Patents, and the Quit rents they are chargeable with.

That the several papers referred to in

the Report of the Committee be filed in the Secretary's office, and that a Copy of the said Report and of this Order be prepared in order to be transmitted to the Commander in Chief of Quebec.

FRENCH SEIGNIORIES ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN.

G0V R TRYON TO LORD HILLSBOROUGH. .

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Lond. Doc. XLIII. ]

New York 1. Septr. 1772.

My Lord --I have had the honor to receive your Lordship's dispatches No 11, 12 & 13. s

It is

matter of real concern to me to learn the consideration of the Canada Claims has not undergone a final decision.

Upon a more strict examination of the claims of the French grantees to lands

within this Gover nt I cannot be persuaded that the last Treaty of peace, or the articles of the Capitulation at the surrender of Canada gives

any valid title to such claims.

St. Lawrence River has been always acknowledged the property of

The territory southwards of

the Five Nations, subjects or allies

of Great Brittain, & as the French settlements, as well as grants within that district were made, not

under the sanction of Cession, purchase or conquest, but by intrusion, the justice of the Title of those claimants seems to rest on His Majty s generosity which will operate no doubt as powerfully in the behalf of those Officers