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.

G. That the Degree of Cultivation at that-Day, even in the Towns that had Inhabitants was very small, and not in one of them had the Terms or Conditions of Settlement and Cultivation contained in the New Hamps.. ~ Patent, been by far complied with. i

That since the notification of hi 2. "suneil

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above mentioned, People have been continually flotking into that Country, claiming under New Hampshire, and in general under Purchases made by them since the said notification, and on small Considerations as to the Value of 'the Lands had the Title been good. That a great many of these Purchases and Settle-: ments were made upon an Expectation of being obliged to sue out new Grants from the Government of N ew York for the same Lands.

I. That this Deponent was well acquainted with 'the late Governor Wentworth, and knows his manner of. granting the Crown Lands, the said Governor told this Deponent when he sued out the first of the five grants above mentioned, that there was no need of calling the Council for their advice therein, as he had obtained about the Close of the last War their general advice for granting the Lands on Connecticut Rivér, on the | West side of which these five Townships lay.