The lands went under the title of the “New Hampshire Grants,” numbering sixty-eight proprietors, each grant being six miles square, the Governor reserving to himself five hundred acres at the corner of each township. There were also reserved four public rights, viz.: one to the society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts; one for a perpetual glebe to the established Church of England; one for the first settled minister of the Gospel in town; and one for the support of a school. The patentees, that is to say, the possessors, were after ten years to pay ninepence sterling per annum on each hundred acres as quit-rent to his Majesty. In addition to the five hundred acres at the corner of each township, Governor Wentworth received fees and other emoluments in his official capacity in making these grants. But he was not always to pursue this career of pecuniary prosperity. Other scheming brains, jealous of his rapidly accumulating fortune, sought to deprive him of his monopoly of land giving. This menace lay in the persons of Cadwallader Colden, Lieut.-Gov. of New York, and some associates composed of lawyers and land speculators of New York city. As an initiative, Lieut.-Gov. Colden issued a proclamation to the settlers on the west bank of the Connecticut, Dec. 28, 1763, arrogating to the government of New York sole jurisdiction over the territory, founding the claim on the grant made by Charles II to the Duke of York in 1664 and 1674, embracing among other parts “all the lands from the west side of the Connecticut River to the east side of the Delaware Bay.” Colden at once commenced making grants of land in his newly acquired territory, and by the first of November following, his patents covered a large portion of the lands occupied by the settlers who had just paid for their titles to the Governor of New Hampshire. Gov. Wentworth now issued a counter proclamation intended to inspire confidence in the grants from New Hampshire, and exhorting the people to be diligent in clearing up their lands, and not be intimidated by the threats of New York. The latter province thereupon made application to the Crown for a confirmation of its claims, falsely and fraudulently averring that such an arrangement would meet the wishes of the people of the territory in dispute. These claims were confirmed by Great Britain in July, 1764. Wentworth complained of this loss of territory, and represented it to be injurious to the peace and prosperity of the country; but he was constrained, by advice of counsel, to recommend to the settlers due obedience to the authority and laws of New York.