Permit me, therefore to assure you, that I shall chearfully embrace & zealously pursue every measure for the King's service and that I cannot be more obliged than in your suggesting to me, expressly; any efficient aid that may be in my power therein--I have the Honor to be very respectfully

Sir your most humble Servt -- J. WENTWORTH.

624 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

P: S: Since the foregoing was wrote Two men; from the Country referred to in your Letter, very unexpectedly arrived here: Upon enquiry of them, they have given me the inclosed attested narrative, written by themselves.

Tam yours as before &¢ J. WENTWORTH,

MEMORIAL OF GOV. WENTWORTH.

To the Honorable Cadwallader Colden Lieutent Governor and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Province of N ew York. And to the Honorable His Majesty's Council for said Province &€ & & im

The Memorial of John Wentworth Esquire

Sheweth

That your Memorialist being by His Majestys Commission Surveyor General of His Majesty's Woods in all and singular His Majesty's Colonies & Plantations in North America; did in virtue of, and obedience to his said Commission,» discover William Deane, Will™ Deane junt & Willard Deane Husbandmen all of - Windsor in the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York trespassing against His Majesty by cutting felling & destroying many White pine Trees off from Lands in s¢ Town of Wind-~ sor; which Lands William Deane first aforesaid holds & possesses solely by a Grant or Patent from the King under the Seal of the Province of New Hampshire, before his Majesty's orders in Council to annex the District on the Western Side of Connecticut River to the Province of New York. |