returned with Encouragements to the People, that he would soon get them annexed to New Hampshire, and this Deponent is well assured that if they had not received Encouragements from the s¢ Governor Wentworth, they would in general long since have submitted to the Laws and Jurisdiction of the Province of New York, and the Disputes concerning Titles have been at an End--That something above a year ago a Petition was carried about for subscription, in the Inhabited Parts of the Country within this Province formerly claimed by New Hampshire, addressed to the present Governor of that Province, requesting his assistance in obtaining the annexing that Country to New Hampshire which measure was commonly understood by the said Inhabitants in the Deponents neighbourhood, to have been undertaken by the Instigation of Governor Wentworth and to have been drawn at Portsmouth and approved of by him before it cireulated for subscription as aforesaid of which besides the common Report abovementioned this Deponent has heen informed by Samuel Robinson who was with Governor Wentworth at Portsmouth on that oceasion, as he informed this Deponent, and which the Deponent believes to be true.

Q. That this last Fall another Petition addressed to. his majesty has been carryed about in the Deponents neighbourhood as he understands and believes, which is generally reported there to have been done by the advice of Governor Wentworth.

R. And this Deponent further saith that at the time of the notification as abovementioned of his Majestys Determination of the said Boundary, the two Southermost Townships were more cultivated than any other of the New Hampshire Grants to the Westward of the Green Mountains, and even with respect to those the Cultivation was exceeding small, that the four Townships to the Northward of. those last mentioned, had hardly any Inhabitants and the clearing any Part of them for Cultivation was but scarcely begun, that the Towns still to the - Northward had no Inhabitants, and that at that Time the Lands aforesaid to the Westward of the Green Mountains not one part in Two Thousand had had any Labor bestowed on them and that at this Day the Improvement & Cultivation on the whole