jw AltyiefoNems: York ss:° Oxrrver Wirrarp Esquire one of: the Assistant Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, for thei CematysdfyGumberland in the Province of New York makes Qath upanithe Holy Evangelists; That he isan Inhabitant of the Tew pons <dlentiord in the said County, formerly granted by Rate nto under the Province of New Hampshire, and since by Pateyfamdey the; Province of New York to the New Hampshire Grantees. pMhat;some Time since the Deponent employed Mr -- Sabo Huts, bawho, is private Secretary to Mt Wentworth the prasanh Gey exbos)of New Hampshire, to sue outa Patent for fine JslanaisrinGognecticut River, four of which are opposite to the saidy Aesmnghip of Hertford, and three of them conceived to

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have been comprehended in the said Patent under New Hampshire.

B. That afterwards in August last, the Deponent went to Portsmouth and waited on M® Wentworth, who expressed his approbation that the Deponent should have'a grant of these Islands, and directed him to Mr Ringe Surveyor General to get the proper surveys performed. That M* Ringe who is the Governors Uncle Authorized his Deputy to make the Survey, but the work is not yet performed, it being postponed as the Deponent supposed til the River was frozen, and' the Islands'

might be surrounded on the Ice.

_ €. That some time in the latter End of December last, the Deponent received a letter from the said Mt Hurd, in the words and figures following--* Portsms 20th Deer 1770 Sir, I have "received your Letter per Capt Wheatly whose good Characte "will I believe obtain for him the Commission desired--Your "make no mention nor have { heard any thing from you about "the Right in Belham for which I have yt Obligation to deliver 'Ca Deed of the same within three Mos I trust you wont forget "the matter nor neglect securing the Right in Time.