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_A. City of New York ss: Simon Stevens an Inhabitant of the Township of Charles Town in the Province of New Hampshire, and at present one of the Members of the General Assembly or House of Representatives of the said Province, maketh oath upon the Holy Evangelists and saith, 'That very soon after M' Wentworth the present Governor of New Hampshire arrived from England as Governor of that Province, he had conversation

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- with him, in which he inquired of the Deponent concerning the Temper of the People on the West side of Connecticut River, upon their being subjected to the Jurisdiction of the Province of New York. That he intimated that he could easily have procured their being again comprehended under New Hampshire, if they had written to him while he was in England for that . Purpose. '

B. That he expressed his inclination that some measures. should be taken, to excite them to procure a Change of Government. ,

C. That he proposed to promote Petitions from the People to accomplish that End, and asked the Deponent if he would be . concerned in facilitating and circulating a Petition of that kind. That the Deponent refused to be concerned in any such measures, That the said Governor has broke the same subject to the Deponent at several Times since, Declaring that if the People could be induced to sign Petitions, it would be easy as he conceived to procure an order for extending the Jurisdiction of New Hampshire across the River,so as to include them within that Government.