That this Deponent never hath heard of any Ejectments:. served by any Person claiming under New York nor of any other action brought by any of them, against any Person to the Eastward of the Green Mountains except in two or three Instances: for Debt & is satisfied if-any such thing had happened he musthave heard of it. That some few of the Inhabitants of that country have been -arrested in Civil Actions brought by them against one another.

G. That this Deponent is acquainted with the Inhabitants of that Country in General & has never heard that any of them served in his Majesty's Regular Forces at any time during the late War except one or two Persons whom this Deponent hath heard are deserters--That a few of them served as Rangers.

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H. That within about two years past the People in that Country have been induced to Conceive Expectations that this part of the Country would soon bee annexed to New Hampshire, that Reports and Encouragements of that nature have been continually circulating among them ever since, which were generally reported and believed in that Country from time to time to have come , from Governor Wentworth, and this Deponent himself believes the same to be true. .

. I. That something above a Twelvemont ago a Petition to his Majesty was circulated thro' that Country for Subseriptions for that End as this Deponent understands and believes, which Petition was at that time and ever since generally reported there to have been drawn by Governor Wentworth--That this Petition was generally reparted and this Deponent believes the same to be true, to have been subscribed by a great many Persons not Inhabitants of that Country, but of New Hampshire and else where, and that in general the Names of the Children of the fnhabitants down to Twelve years of Age and under were said to have been subscribed thereto as Petitioners--which Petition this Deponent hath understood hath been some time since Transmitted to England by Governor Wentworth.