That the Deponent has also seen an attested Copy of another Petition to his Majesty, of the like Import with that above mentioned, which has been lately circulated in that County, and which he also for the Reasons above mentioned believes was drawn by the said Governor.

E. That the Deponent has known Lands granted under New Hampshire on the East side of Connecticut River, to be regranted to other Persons for Default of the first Patentees in not settling the same, and that without any office being first found. And

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the Deponent also saith That it is very common in that Government to grant Shares and Interests in Patents for the Benefit of the Governor and some of his Council, whose Proportions of the Fees are born by the other Patentees. --

F. And this Deponent further saith, that for many Years last past he hasbeen well acquainted with the Lands formerly claimed by New Hampshire, on the West side of Connecticut River, that he well remembers that Governor Coldens Proclamation of* 28th Dect 1763, and the Proclamations of Governor Colden and the

late Governor Wentworth, notifying the Kings Determination of the Boundary between the. said Governments were all publie in Print of that Country. That at the Time last mentioned there were every few Settlers to the Eastward of the Green Mountains, claiming under New Hampshire, this Deponent. believes there were not seventy Families, and those were scattered in about a Dozen Townships on that River, and the Chief of them in Brattleborough, Westminster, Pultney-and Rockingham, and that in all the rest of the numerous Tracts granted by New Hampshire, from the North Bounds of the Massachusetts Bay on Connecticut River, Northward and Northwestward, to the farthest extent of the Claim of New Hampshire on the West side of the said River, there was not at that Time one Inhabitant this Deponent verily believes, having frequently been over that Country, and was at that Time and yet is well agquainted with it,