That this Deponent is well acquainted with the Country thereabouts, and verily believes that since he has lived there, the number of Settlers under the New Hampshire Grants to the Northward of this Deponents Habitation have increased at least three fold--And from the General Accounts he has received in that neighbourhood he is well satisfied that since the Notification of his Majesty's order in Council of 20 July 1764 those settlers have increased at least five Fold, and that they are from all the Information he has received Purchasers for very small Considerations and not patentees and that many of them have purchased the New Hampshire Titles to Lands which at the Time of the Purchases they knew had been granted by the Government of New York, and particularly that such Purchases have been made by about Ten Persons in a Grant made by the said Government of New York to Duncan MeVicar a reduced officer by virtue of his Majestys Proclamation of the 7t» October 1763, who have seated themselves in the said Lands arid still hold Possession under the New Hampshire Grant.

C. That ever since this Deponent has lived in that Country many of the Inhabitants have showed a Disposition of not obey-

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ing the Laws of New York or submitting to its Jurisdiction and that in general they have regulated themselves by the Laws of New Hampshire, and the Charters granted by the late Governor Wentworth, in order as this Deponent hath always understood, the more easy to bring about the annexing that Country to New Hampshire, and the Confirmation of the Grants of that Government, 'That they accordingly have chosen select men & other officers, & held Town meetings pursuant to the said charters.