whole Extent from North to South, to defend themselves by

Force of Arms, in opposition to every attempt in support of the

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NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS. 827

Titles to Lands there under the Provinee of New York, and that chey could raise Multitudes of Men for that Purpose, sometimes mentioning a thousand, sometimes two, thousand, and sometimes five hundred Men ; That notwithstanding their Declarations and Menaces ; this Deponent is fully satisfied, that he could reduce them to due Order all over the Country with fifty Men, and this Deponent further saith, that one of the Settlers on his said Land expressing a Willingnesss to submit, and to take a Lease from this Deponent, was threatened by the rest of the Company, that if he did, or acknowledged this Deponent. to be his Landlord, his House should be burnt over his Head before the next Morning, and he also if he did not fly, though this Deponent declares: they acknowledged they-had no Right to that Part of the Land, but they insisted that. no Person should hold any Land there

under any New York Title. Davin Wooster. Sworn this 20th Day of February,

1773. Before me. Daniet HorsMANDEN.

*.* Davip Woosrer, who signed the above affidavit, was afterwards Major General in the Revolutionary War. He was born in 1711; graduated at. Yale in 1738, and while opposing a detachment of British troops, whose object was to destroy the public stores at Danbury, was mortally wounded at Ridgfield, April 27, and died May 2,1777. Atien.