Albany ss: Jonatuan Wurre of Shafsbury cuming this evenmg past the House of John Blackely of Shafsbury aforesaid the -- said Blakely Called out hew comes there the Deponent answered Jonathan White, well what dis the Mahomet say, the deponent answered not much, then the said John Blakely asked the Deponent what he thought of the Proclamation, the deponent answered T dont think much of it for I believed it all before T saw it--the os Blakely answered and said its a Damn thing and the Gover-

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nor may stick it in his ARS--the said John Blakely told the Deponent repeatedly that if ever the land should get Back to New Hampshire that every man that was a Yorker should be ruined, and hove off the land. One Joshua Beats of Shafsbury aforesaid did in like manner told the deponant that if the Yorkers got the land and drive them off they would come every year and destroy all and every Persons substance that would ofer to Settle upon the lands & the deponant says that in General the Inhabitants are more inraged against the Government since the last Proclamation was Published then ever they were before and that a number of them are determined to fight till they die; and that they will not submit to the authority of this Government; asigning for a reason that if they should submit to the authority of Government they shall lose their lands, but as long as they shall [be] joined togither they would hold the land and keep off the