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. Papers.

C. That at the time of the notification of his Majesty's said order in Council, the Country in the Province of New York to the Eastward of the Green Mountains had very few Inhabitants and that these were scattered among about a Dozen. Towns on or near Connecticut River, and this Deponent believes that at that time, there were no Inhabitants in all that District up as

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far as the utmost extent.of the former claim of New Hampshire Northward and Northwestward except the few stragling Inhabitants above mentioned and that these few Inhabitants were as the Deponent hath always understood and believes in General Purchasers under some of the Letters Patent issued by the late Governor Wentworth for very small Considerations, and not Patentees. That at that Time the State of Cultivation in these Tracts that had any Inhabitants was very inconsiderable.

D. That this Deponent believes there are now ten times as many Settlers in the Tract formerly claimed by New Hampshire aforesaid, than there were at that Day, and that these are almost altogether Purchasers under the New Hampshire Patents since the notification of the Kings Determination of the Boundary as aforesaid a great many of whom settled in expectation of taking out new Grants from the Province of New York, which they are still desirous of doing, this Deponent having beeu desired by the Inhabitants of several Townships to Assist them therein.