Nicolls looking upon them to bee honest men @ agreed with them for £20 P P s @ what they could make over @ above they should deliver to Mr Santen That Dan. Whitehead offered me three pounds for my license it is false, or that I had <£10, from Nicolls @ Vaughton is likewise false as doth appear by Mr Nicolls testimony @ would by that of Mr Vaughton were hee here. Neither had I even any mony for licenses since I came into this Government except from Albany

@ this place .£24, but on the contrary gave

it

all

to the collectors of the respective

countys for their encouragement To the twelfe concerning Mr Pretty fyc.

Mr. Pretty is Sheriff of that County @ having a great deal of other concerns upon his hands for @ countreys service, that being a frontier County to Canada, soe that hee could not possibly

the King

attend the Surveyors place I put in William

mond Andros @

Shaw who had that place before in the time of S r Edas Mayor Brockhelles informs us behaved himself faithfully therein.

And as to his

allegation in his memorandums that Shaw was put in for satisfaction for two or three years pay due to him, it is wholly untrue as does appear

by the testimony of Mayor Baxter, Mr Coker, @ by the

receipt under Shaws own hand

To the Thirteenth concerning the deprivations of the Officers fyc This John Smith is a man that if hee were as honest as hee is able the King had had more justice r done him Mr. Santen more money in his pocket. What account S Ben Bathurst gave mee of him