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.

H. That this Deponents Purchases under the New Hampshire Grants, have been saved to them by the Governmt of New York, in consequence of an order of the Governor & Council of the 224 May 1765, a Copy of which this Deponent in the Summer of that year carried up into that Country together with orders from the Surveyor General to his Deputy Archibald Campbell not to survey the Possessions of all the settlers under New Hampshire within any Warrant of Survey that he had already received, or should thereafter come to his Hands which order of the Council this Deponent made public among those Inhabitants, and endeavored to persuade them to accept the Benefits intended them thereby, But that in general they refused. That the siad Archibald Campbell was then making Surveys in that Part of the Country and offered to several Persons in the Deponents Presence to survey their Possessions and divers others have confessed to the Deponent, that the said Campbell had made the said offers to them, but all of them except this Deponent and about a Dozen Persons more retused to shew their Boundaries, or take any notice of it declaring they would not consent to pay the Quit Rent reserved by the New York Grants, nor put them-