Power
alledging that land was now at a far greater value than at the time
of your Memoralist's Father's coming into the Province, and even this
upon the common condition of settling ten Families upon the said
lands and paying a Quit Rent to the Crown. Part however of the People
who had promised to settle with your Memoralist in case he had
prevailed, were drawn to petition for lands to themselves, which they
obtained, tho' they never could get one foot of land before, which
provision of lands as your Memoralist apprehends, ought in Equity to
be considered as an obligation on the Province to perform, so far as
the number of those Families goes, the Conditions stipulated with his
Father, as those Families never had come into & consequently could
not now be remaining in the Province, if he had not persuaded them to
accompany him, & been at a very large expence in transporting them
thither.

That there are still very many of these Families who have no land and
would willingly settle with your Memoralist. That there are numbers
of non commissioned Officers and Soldiers of the Regiments disbanded
in North America who notwithstanding His Majesty's gracious
Intentions are from many causes too long to trouble your Lordship
with at present without any settlement provided for them, and that
there are also many Families of loyal Protestants in the Islands and
other parts of North Britain which might be induced by reasonable
proposals and a certainty of their being fulfilled, to remove into
the said Province, which would add greatly to the strength, security
and opulence thereof, and be in all respects faithful and serviceable
subjects to His Majesty.

That the premisses considered, particularly the long scene of
hardships to which your Memoralist's Family has been exposed, for
Twenty Six years, in consideration of his own and his Brothers'
services, & the perils to which they have been exposed during the
long and fatiguing War, and the Prospect he still has of contributing
to the settlement of His Majesty's unimproved country, your
Memoralist humbly prays that Your Lordships would direct the
Government of New York to grant to him the said One Hundred thousand
Acres, upon his undertaking to settle One Hundred or One Hundred and
Fifty Families upon the same within the space of Three years or such
other Recompence or Relie