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

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R E P O R T OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS for TRADE and PLANTATIONS ON THE PETITION OF THE Honourable T HOMAS W ALPOLE , B ENJAMIN   F RANKLIN , J OHN S ARGENT , and S AMUEL   W HARTON , Esquires, and their A SSOCIATES ; FOR A Grant of Lands on the R IVER O HIO , in North America; for the purpose of Erecting a new Government. WITH OBSERVATIONS and REMARKS.

LONDON: Printed for J. A LMON , opposite Burlington-House, in Piccadilly. MDCCLXXII.

R E P O R T OF The Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations. ON THE P E T of the H I onourab T le I O N T HOMAS W ALPOLE and his Associates, for a Grant of Lands on the River O HIO in N ORTH A MERICA . M Y L ORDS , P t U h R e  S h U u A mb N l T e     to m   e yo m u o r r   i l a o l r   d o s f  h t i h p e s     h o o r n d o e u r r   a o b f  l t e h   e T   h 2 o 5 m th a   s M   a W y a   l 1 p 7 o 7 le 0 , ,     B w e e n   j h a a m v i e n     t F a r k a e n n k   l i i n n t ,  o J  o o u h r n     c S o a n r s g i e d n e t r ,  a a ti n o d n 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 petition to the Lords Commissioners of the treasury, proposing to purchase a larger tract of land on the river Ohio in America, sufficient for a separate government; whereupon their lordships were pleased to acquaint the memorialists, they had no objection to accepting the proposals made by them with respect to the purchase-money and quit-rent to be paid for the said tract of land, if it should be thought adviseable by those departments of government, to whom it belonged to judge of the propriety of the grant, both in point of policy and justice, that the grant should be made; in consequence whereof the memorialists humbly renew their application that a grant of said lands may be made to them, reserving therein to all persons their just and legal rights to any parts or parcels of said lands which may be comprehended within the tract prayed for by the memorialists; " [5] whereupon we beg leave to report to your lordships, I. That according to the description of the tract of land prayed for by the memorialists, which description is annexed to their memorial, it appears to us to contain part of the dominion of Virginia, to the south of the river Ohio, and to extend several degrees of longitude westward from the western ridge of the Appalachian mountains, as will more fully appear to your Lordships from the annexed sketch of the said tract, which we have since caused to be delineated with as much exactness as possible, and herewith submit to your Lordships, to the end that your Lordships may judge with the greater precision of the situation of the lands prayed for in the memorial. II. From this sketch your Lordships will observe, that a very considerable part of the lands prayed for, lies beyond the line, which has, in consequence of his Majesty's orders for that purpose, been settled by treaty, as well with the tribes of the Six Nations, and their confederates, as with the Cherokee Indians, as the boundary line between his Majesty's territories and their hunting grounds; and as the faith of the crown is pledged in the most solemn manner both to the Six Nations and to the Cherokees, that notwithstanding the former of these nations had ceded the property in the lands to his Majesty, yet no settlements shall be made beyond that line, it is our duty to report to your Lordships our opinion, that it would on that account be highly improper to comply with the request of the memorial, so far as it includes any lands beyond the said line . It remains therefore, that we report to your Lordships our opinion, how far it may consist with good policy and with justice, that his Majesty should comply with that part of the memorial which relates to

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