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

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of the said Tract, is in comparison with its magnitude' very inconsiderable.

Exsenezer Core. Sworn this 27 Day of February } 1771 Before me. ;

Dan: HorsMAnpDEN.

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/l. City of New York ss. Joun Munror of Fowlis in the County of Albany, Esquire, one of his Majestys Justices of the peace for the said County being duly sworn maketh Oath, that he lives on the East side of Hudsons River about seventeen miles Distant from the said River, as the Surveyor employed by him lately, to measure the Distance to that River informed him that he began to build there near four years ago, and has resided there near three years. That the Deponents House stands within the Bounds of a Tract of Land called Shaftsbury said to have been granted by the late Governor of New Hampshire.