mily, shall have
been delivered in by him as aforesaid, accompanied with the said
association, and it is Our further will and pleasure that it be
expressed in the said letters patent, that the lands so to be granted
shall be exempt from the payment of quit-rents for 20 years from the
date thereof, with a proviso however that all such parts of the said
Tracts as shall not be settled in manner aforesaid within two years
from the date of the grant shall revert to us, and be disposed of in
such manner as we shall think fit; and it is our further will and
pleasure, that neither yourself, nor any other of our Officers,
within our said Province, to whose duty it may appertain to carry
these our orders into execution do take any Fee or reward for the
same, and that the expense of surveying and locating any Tract of
Land in the manner and for the purpose above mentioned be defrayed
out of our Revenue of Quit rents and charged to the account thereof.
And we do hereby, declare it to be our further will and pleasure,
that in case the whole or any part of the said Colonists, fit to bear
Arms, shall be hereafter embodied and employed in Our service in
America, either as Commission or non Commissioned Officers or private
Men, they shall respectively receive further grants of Land from us
within our said province, free of all charges, and exempt from the
payment of quit rents for 20 years, in the same proportion to their
respective Ranks, as is directed and prescribed by our Royal
Proclamation of the 7th of October 1763 in regard to such officers
and soldiers as were employed in our service during the last War."

This paltry scheme concocted to raise men for the royal cause could have
but very little effect. The Highlanders, it proposed to reach, were
scattered, and the work proposed must be done secretly and with
expedition. To raise the Highlanders required address, a number of
agents, and necessary hardships. Armed with the warrant Colonel Maclean
and some followers preceded to New York and from there to Boston, where
the object of the visit became known through a sergeant by name of
McDonald who was trying to enlist "men to join the King's Troops; they
seized him, and on his examination found that he had been employed by
Major Small for this Purpose; they sent him a Prisoner into Connecticut.
This has raised a violent suspicion against the Scots and Highlanders