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.

K. That Jast Fall another Petition to his Majesty for the like purpose, was carried about thro' that Country for Subscription as this Deponent understands and believes that this Deponent saw the original thereof as it was Called of which he took a copy, which original was wrote in a very fair Hand, and was currently reported there to have been drawn at Portsmouth by the present Governor Wentworth, and to have been by him sent up into that Country by Benjamin Whiting who has long acted as one of M» Wentworths Deputies, as: Surveyor of the Kings Woods, to be copied for subscriptions all which this Deponent verily believes to be true, and also that it was generally believed by the People there, this Deponent having frequently heard these Reports mentioned in Conversation and never heard a suggestion to the contrary.