That this Deponent attended the Circuit Court held last Junein the City of Albany, when four of these Ejectments were tried, viz those agt James Breakenridge Samuel Rose one of the prince Town Def's Isaiah Carpenter, Josiah Fuller one of the Inhabitants on the Grant to Revd Mt Slaughter--that Breakenridge made no Defence, his Possession being within Twenty miles from Hudsons River, against the other three Verdicts were found by Special Juries, on Trials that appeared wholly fair to this Deponent, and to some of the leading Persons interested under New Hampshire, and particularly to one Bliss Willoughby, who acted there as Trustee for the New Hampshire Claimants,-- And this Deponent well remembers that after the said Trials some of the Defend's and many other of the leading People under the Claim of New Hampshire, went to some of the Proprietors under New York, then in Albany, owned their Title to be good confessed their moderation, and declared they could only blame the Government of New Hampshire for granting their lands, and themselves for contending against the New York Proprietors,

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L. That many of the Claimants under New Hampshire in consequence of these Trials proposed settling their Dispute with the New York Proprietors; but the writs of Possession being delayed, they in general changed their minds, and declared the New York Proprietors dared not to serve them--and from the common and public Conversation of those Inhabitants it was manifest to this Deponent that they had confederated to support each other by Force of Arms.