Wentworths Patents for Lands on the West side of Connecticut River, and is very certain he had not the advice of his Council for issuing that Patent further than the general advice above mentioned.

Q. That the nearest Part of this Country to Portsmouth in*

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6.96 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THF

New Hampshire is one hundred and Twenty miles as the Road goes, which this Deponent thinks cannot be shortened more than Ten miles, and that the easiest, most convenient and cheapest way, to the City of New York, from all that country is by Albany, and so down Hudsons River, without passing out of

the Province of New York. Simon STrevens.

Sworn this Second Day of March 1771 Before me Dan : HorsMANDEN.

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City of New York ss. Samurt Wexzs of Brattleborough in the County of Cumberland in the Province of New. York Esquire, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court. of Common Pleas, and one. of his Majestys Justices of the Peace for said County being duly sworn maketh oath that he has resided at Brattleborough aforesaid ever since the month of July 1762,- haying before that time purchased some Lands under the Letters Patent of the late Governor Wentworth, for the said Tract called Brattleborough, and which purchase hath. been since confirmed to him by a Grant from the Government of New York.

B. That very soon after Governor Coldens Proclamation asserting the Jurisdiction of the Province of New York in that Country, it was Public there being fixed up in Print in Divers Places, and that soon after the issuing of the Proclamations by the Governments of New Hampshire and New York, notifying his Majesty's Determination of the Boundary between these two Governments of the 20 of July 1764 in Council, the same were Public in that Country being printed in the Public News.