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.

* BE. That the Deponent did not sign the late petition to his Majesty circulated among the Inhabitants of Cumberland County in favor of the Jurisdiction of New York, because he was fearfull that it might obstruct him in his said application to New Hampshire, for the Grant of the Islands abovementioned.

F. That this Deponent has been an Inhabitant of Hertford aforesaid for eight years last-past, and well remembers that the Proclamations by the Governments of New York and New Hampshire, notifying his Majestys Determination of the Boundary between those Governments were very Publickly known in that Country soon after they issued. That at that Time he believes there might be about one hundred Families settled in all that

. Country Eastward of the Green Mountains, formerly claimed by

* New Hampshire, now comprized within the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester, and that those:Inhabitants were seattered through about Twenty Tracts or Townships of about six miles square each, and principally along Connecticut River.