County of Cumberland ss: Be it Remembered that on the Twenty Sixth Day of January one thousand seven hundred and seventy three Personally came and appeared before me Samuel Wells Esquire one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, for the same County, Israel Curtis, Esquire, and Malichi Church Yeoman, both of y® same County, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God depose and say that they were severally present and did see the several persons whose names are signed to the annexed Petition to his most Excellent Majesty and the Duplicate thereof respectively sign their names thereto voluntarily and of their free accord, and that the Several Persons who have so signed the same are Inhabitants of the County of Cumberland or of the County of Gloucester on the West Side of Connecticut River within the Province of New York.

Samui WELLs.

Secretary's Office New York 5th February 1773. The Preceeding are true copies of their respective originals. Attest Gw. Banyar D Secry

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DEPOSITION OF CAPT. DAVID WOOSTER. :

City of New York, ss. Davip Wooster, of New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut, Esquire, being a Captain on Half-pay, reduced from his Majesty's Fifty-first Regiment of Foot, being

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duly sworn, Hida oath, eat as a reduced officer as aforesaid,

he obtained pursuant to his Majesty's Proclamation for that Purpose, a Grant under the Great Seal of the Province of New-