NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 683

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.

M. That about the Beginning of January last the Sheriff of Albany as this Deponent hath understood in the neighbourhood, and verily believes, came to execute writs of Possession for the Farms recovered in the said Ejectments, and that he was resisted by a number of armed men, who by Force prevented entirely his serving his writs on the Possessions of Breakenridge and Fuller, and that he returned to Albany without executing them-- and that this Deponent has in like manner been informed and believes that the next day thereafter the Sheriffs Deputy executed the processes on the Farm of Samuel Rose and Isaiah Carpenter but not without a violent Resistance by a number of armed Men.

JV. And this Deponent saith that he has never heard of any other Ejectments being brought for any Lands to the Westward of the Green Mountains under New Hampshire, except one agt one Colvin, which was served, but not further prosecuted.

O. That the Deponent is acquainted in general with all the Inhabitants of the Lands formerly claimed by New Hampshire on the West side of the Green Mountains from the Line of the Massachusetts Bay tothe most Northern Settlements and knows -- not of one Person among them who served in his Majestys Regular Forces at any Time whatsoever, and that very few of them ever served in any of the provincial Forces.