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-

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selves to any further charge about the Title, among the Persons so refusing was Isaiah Carpenter, against whom a Recovery hag been. lately obtained in Ejectment, wherein Major Small a reduced officer was Lessor of the plaintiff, in whose Grant the Possessions of the said Carpenter was situate.

I, That this Deponent remembers that about a year ago nine Ejectments were brought under New York for Lands to the Westward of the Green Mountains, one of them against the said Isaiah Carpenter, another against Justin Olin, who had settled on Major Smalls said Grant, knowing it was granted to Major Small having purchased under New Hampshire since the passing of the Majors Grant, and upon Condition not to pay his Purchase Money unless his Title was secured to him under New Hampshire. Another against James Breakenridge, who had settled on Wallumschack Patent, Four against Persons in Prince Town. And two against some Persons on a Grant of this Province of New York to the Rev4 Michael Slaughter a reduced Regimental Chaplain. That thereupon the Inhabitants of this Part of the Country in general declared these suits were only brought to frighten them, and that they never would be tried.