New York against the settlers under New Hampshire--against Samuel Rose and three others in Prince Town--Isaiah Carpenter and Justin Ollin on a Tract Granted in New York to Major Small a reduced officer, James Breakenridge in Wallumschack Patent, and against two other Persons on a Tract of Land granted to Rev4 Michael Slaughter a Reduced Regimental Chaplain. That soon after this Deponent heard frequent accounts that the claimants under New Hampshire, declared the New York Proprietors. would never bring them to Trial--and that they were only brought to frighten them into an agreement, but that they were determined to make no Terms with the New York Proprietors.

I. That this Deponent attended the Circuit Court last Summer at Albany, where four of these causes were tried. That Breakenridge made no Defence, and that on the three other verdicts were found by Special Juries for the Plaintiffs. That these verdicts were to the general satisfaction of the Country, as wellas to many of the leading men among the New Hampshire Claimants--this Deponent having heard Bliss Willoughby who was their Agent for Shaftsbury and many others own the Invalidity of their own Claim under New Hampshire, and

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acknowledge they did not suspect the New York claims was so good.

H. That upon this Deponents return home from the said trials, and for some time thereafter, he' found the claimarits under New Hampshire in his neighborhood fond of coming to a settlement with the proprietors under New York, but that afterwards repeated encouragements being received in that Quarter from the present Governor of New Hampshire as the Universal Report was in that Part.of the Country, and which the Deponent believes to be true, they would hold their Lands under the New Hampshire Titles until they were defeated in England and that soon thereafter a Petition was handed about in his neighborhood as this Deponent has understood and believes for subseripton i in Pursuance of some plan that had been fallen upon, to aniiex these Lands to New Hampshire, but to whom the Petition was addressed, or what were its Contents this Deponent knows not.