These are Therefore Praying your Excellency for the grant of the said Sheriftship of the said City and County of Albany to your Memorialist; for whose character and connection, he begs leave humbly to recommend your Excellency to Col. John Reid of this City And for your Memorialist's particular conduct in this Government, he requests the liberty of recommending your Excellency to the honourable W™ Smith, and the honourable, Hugh Wallace of his Majesty's Council and for your Memorialists behaviour as a Magistrate he refers himself to the character of Mt Attoy Gen'.

Your Excellencys kind Compliance in the aforesaid will your Memorialist, as in.duty bind to pray,

Joun Munro. New York 20% Septr 1771.

"DEPOSITION OF SAMUEL GARDENIER.

City of New York, ss: Samuel Gardenier of Wallumscock, in the county of Albany, yeoman, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, That about four years ago, he purchased Three hundred

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and Ten acres of Land lying within the Patent of Wallumscock aforesaid, from James De Lancey of the city of New York Esq ; for Three Hundred Pounds which he paid M' De Lancey : That this Deponent removed upon the said Farm about three years ago last June ; That he found one Ichabod Cross settled upon Part of the Lands he so purchased, who had made improvements thereon, pretending he had a Right under New Hampshire. That the Deponent being unwilling to take any advantage of the Improvements the said Cross had so made, entered upon an Arbitration with him by Bond, in the Penalty of One Thousand or Five Hundred Pounds, the Deponent not having his papers with him, cannot recollect which, to abide by the award of Referrees, chosen between the Deponent and the said Cross, to settle what Allowance the Deponent should give Cross, for the Improvements he had so made upon the said Land.