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.

I shall now proceed to that Atlegation that some of the Petitioners have expended the whole and others the greatest part of what they were with in purchasing the suid Grants &c. How far any credit is to be given to this assertion will be left to your Lordship to determine after itis made to appear how much has been the real original expence of these Charters, for as to the Improvement of the Lands as the greatest part of those now Petition4 for are still uncultivated, certainly no claims can be made for money laid out on them. From the best informations I have been able to obtain from the Claimants themselves, there appears to have been a sum of money paid down on the taking out of the charter which varies much (occasioned as I suppose from the Situation of the Lands) and that the whole amount of these sums have