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Title: Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates
1772

Author: Great Britain Board of Trade

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REPORT

OF THE

LORDS COMMISSIONERS for

TRADE and PLANTATIONS

ON THE

PETITION

OF THE

Honourable THOMAS WALPOLE, BENJAMIN
FRANKLIN, JOHN SARGENT, and SAMUEL
WHARTON, Esquires, and their ASSOCIATES;

FOR

A Grant of Lands on the RIVER OHIO, in North
America; for the purpose of Erecting a new
Government.

WITH

OBSERVATIONS and REMARKS.

LONDON:

Printed for J. ALMON, opposite Burlington-House, in
Piccadilly.

MDCCLXXII.

REPORT

OF

The Lords Commissioners for
Trade and Plantations.

ON THE

PETITION of the Honourable
THOMAS WALPOLE and his Associates,
for a Grant of Lands on
the River OHIO in NORTH AMERICA.

MY LORDS,

Pursuant to your lordships order of the 25th May 1770, we have taken
into our consideration the humble memorial of the honourable Thomas
Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires,
in behalf of themselves and their associates, setting forth (among
other things) "That they presented a petition to his Majesty, in
council, for a grant of lands in America (_parcel_ of the lands
purchased by government of the Indians) in consideration of a price to
be paid in purchase of the same; _that in pursuance of a suggestion
which arose when the said petition was under consideration of the Lords
Commissioners for trade and plantations_, the memorialists presented a
petit