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that Province, and not agreeable to the Laws of New York, which have not been the Rule of their Conduet--And this Deponent understands and believes from the general Conversations, that this hath been done to facilitate the annexing of this Country to New Hampshire.

NM. That about two years ago, in a Conversation this Deponent had with the present Governor Wentworth he said to this Deponent, that he the Governor should advise the People there to, regulate themselves according to their Grants from New Hampshire, that he did not know a better Rule they had to go by ; that he did not doubt if they would be at any Pains in Sollicitations, but that the Lands might be got back to New Hampshire, that they had he thought been very slack in it, and that he would advise the People to go on settling under the New Hampshire Grants or words to that Effect.

O. And this Deponent further saith, that for more than two years past, the People between the Green Mountains and Connecticut River, have been continually encouraged to extend their settlements under the Claim of New Hampshire and to believe that this Country would soon be annexed to that Government, which Encouragement by the universal Report among them, came from Time to Time from Governor Wentworth, and which this Deponent believes to be true, and this Deponent is fully sensible that had it not been for those Encouragements all opposition to the Government of New York would long since have been at an End.