That within a Short Time after the notification of the Royal Determination as afs¢ the Inhabitants in general of that Part of the County claiming under New Hampshire concluded to keep up and maintain the Privileges mentioned in their Grants from New Hampshire, and not to submit to any Laws Customs or usages of the Government of New York imagining this would strengthen their Pretensions, which they maintained among other Things by Declaring that the Kings order of Council of 20 July 1764 was not of sufficient Authority. And accordingly they chose select men for the Townships held frequent Town Meetings pursuant to their Charters, and made the Laws of New Hampshire the Rules of their Conduct, which in general they have persisted in ever since.

NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 681 .

_F. And this Deponent further saith that he well remembers to have heard several Persons settlers in that Part of the Country aforesaid under Grants of New Hampshire declare that they had tied up and publickly whipped one Moore who was sent by the Proprietors of Prince Town patent to settle thereon under the New York Title, and according to the best of his Remembrance they at the same Time threatned to serve every Person in the like manner who should come there on the like Errand.

G. That he has always understood and is satisfied that it is true, that the Proprietors under New York, have always been, disposed to treat the Settlers on their Lands under New Hampshire, with Tenderness, and to give them better Terms than to other Persons, which Tenderness and Forbearance has been constantly construed by the settlers to arise solely from the Proprietors under New York doubting the validity of their own Title, and has constantly increased the spirit of oppositien in the settlers under New Hampshire, who took up the opinion that the New York Proprietors were afraid to bring actions against them.