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. That with respect to two of these Tracts this Deponent made only a verbal application to him, who thereupon gave him a note to the Secretary, who accordingly issued the Letters Patent, all of which passed without any Survey, except of the River by Joseph Blanchard: Esquire, and without any other advice of Council but the General Advice above mentioned.

K. That this Deponent hath never heard of any Ejectment or other. Action brought against any Person on the East side of the Green Mountains, by any Person Claiming under New York, nor of, any Person there being imprisoned, except for Criminal Matters, and in Suits brought by the Inhabitants of that Country against each other, nor of any Persons property being wrested. from him, except that he has heard that some of the Lots reserved by the late Governor Wentworth for himself in some of his Grants have been granted 'to others by the Government of New York. And this Deponent verily believes that no such Things: could have happened without his hearing of them.