matter of doubt as to. great numbers of them, whether they ever had any intentions of residing there or not ; Two persons agents for some others who came to Town yesterday to solicit a Grant of two Townships under the New Hampshire charters, (whose claims have been laid above a Twelve month but were never proceeded on) have confirmed what I now write in regard to the number of Families, and have declared ingenuously to me that there are no settlements on the Lands they came now to Claim, nor were there any ever made in consequence of the former charters, but that if the Governmt would indulge them in their Grants they would proceed immediately to the making of Improvements, and this is the case with the greatest number of them ; These men who both reside in the Boston Government informed me that they were solicited to join in this Petition but refused it, as many of the most considerable people there had done already, and were not a little surprized at some of the bold assertions in it which they themselves know to be false.

I can give no opinion or account of their being engaged in the actual service of His Majesty in the late War, which they sett forth being a stranger to it, but Robinson can plead but little merit, from his service, which J am told here was nothing more than that of driving an Ox cart for the Suttlers, and I think it must be obvious to every one that very few Levies could be made at that time in a Frontier Country exposed to all incursions, and which had scarce any Inhabitants at all in it.