And the Deponent verily believes that the true reason why his application for a Grant of the said Islands will not probably succeed, is from a disgust excited by the Deponents conduct: and known Zeal for maintaining the authority of the Government of New York, on the West side of Connecticut River, in Conformity to the Royal Order of the Twentieth of July one thousand seven hundred and sixty. four, This Deponent, having been Instrumental towards preventing the late Riots and Disorders in the Township of Windsor, in Which divers.persons with Nathan Stone were very active. .

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D. And the Deponent further saith, that there was a Reservation in the New Hampshire Grant of the said Township of Hertford, of five hundred acres for the Governor of that Colony. That Sundry of the Council of the said Province had shares and Interests in the Lands thereby granted. That this was usual in the Patents issued in that Province, That he has himself been concerned in sueing out five Patents under the Great Seal of New Hampshire, and that he always understood that the Governor and Council of that Colony paid no Proportion of the Fees, but that, that Burden was born by other Patentees, That the same Rights and Shares secured in the New Hampshire Grant of the Town of Hertford, for the Society for propagating the Gospel and other Public uses, were also secured for the same Purposes in repatenting of that Township under the Great Seal of New York.