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. |

Your Memorialist further sheweth That he prosecuted the said William Deane W™ Deane junt & Willard Deane for the gd Trespasses in the Court of Vice Admiralty for the Province of New York, and having by full, and clear possitive Evidence, supported his Complaint His Honour the Judge of Vice Admiralty after a full & open Trial, did solemnly adjudicate, and decree them the said Will" Deane, William Deane junt and Wil-

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lard Deane, to have been guilty of cutting White pine Trees as aforesaid; and to have incurred the penaltys of the Statute in that case made and provided--as by the Decree of said Court may at large appear but the Execution for said Penaltys being directed only against the Goods & Chattels of the aforesaid Trespassers, which it appears were alienated (while the suit was yet pending) to Samuel Wells Esq? a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Cumberland in the Province aforesaid, by the trespassers aforesaid, whereby the Recovery of the penaltys in the Statute aforesaid is evaded, tho' legally adjudicated. :