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Blade and carried about for Subscription and that it was their General Practice to Obtain Subscrip-tions of Persons under age thereto.
M. Tiiat this Deponent believes that very few if any of the Settlers on the Southerly part of thisTract to the East of the Green Mountains, signed the said Petition last mentioned, as they arealmost universally desirous of remaining in the Province of New York and this Deponent is wellconviticed that of the whole Inhabitants of the Counties of Cumberland and Gloucester a greatmajority are desirous of remaining within the Jurisdiction of the Government of New York , thestrength of the opposition thereto laying in the Townships of Windsor Newbury and Westminster,and among some scattered Inhabitants in some few other Towns.
J\ r . And this Deponent firmly believes and has heard a great many of the Inhabitants of thatCountry frequently declare the like, that there would long since have been an end to their oppo-sition to the Government of New York had they not been animated by the continued encourage-ment received from time to time from Governor Wentworth as aforesaid.
Sam l Wells.
Sworn this 2 d Day of Mareh 1771, Before me
Dan: Hormanden.
Ji. City of New York ss : Oliver Willard Esquire one of the Assistant Judges of the InferiorCourt of Common Pleas, for the County of Cumberland in the Province of New York makes Oathupon the Holy Evangelists, That he is an Inhabitant of the Town of Hertford in the said County ,formerly granted by Patent under the Province of New Hampshire , and since by Patent under theProvince of New York to the New Hampshire Grantees. That some Time since the Deponent employed M r John Hurd, who is private Secretary to M r Wentworth the present Governor of NewHampshire, to sue out a Patent for five Islands in Connecticut River , four of which are opposite tothe said Township of Hertford, and three of them conceived to have been comprehended in the saidPatent under New Hampshire .
B. That afterwards in August last, the Deponent went to Portsmouth and waited on M r Went-worth, who expressed his approbation that the Deponent should have a grant of these Islands ,and directed him to M r Ringe Surveyor General to get the proper surveys performed. That M rRinge who is the Governors Uncle Authorized his Deputy to make the Survey, but the work isnot yet performed, it being postponed as the Deponent supposed til the River was frozen, and theIslands might be surrounded on tlie lee.
C. That some time in the latter End of December last, the Deponent received a letter from thesaid Mt Hurd, in the words and figures following—“Portsm 3 20 th Deer 1770 Sir, I have received“ your Letter per Capt Wheatly whose good Character will I believe obtain for him the Commission“ desired—Your make no mention nor have I heard any thing from you about the Right in Belliam<c for which I have y r Obligation to deliver a Deed of the same within three Mo s I trust you wont“ forget the matter nor neglect securing the Right in Time. Your Petition for the Island in“ Connecticut River I am afraid will not succeed, as there has been some Information lately of your“ Conduct respecting the affairs on the West side the River which seems to injure yr Interest atC£ Portsm 0 & may prevent y e success of y r Petition—this I thou* best to mention to you that you may“ not think it owing to my neglect I am S 4 ' y r hum Serv* John Hurd. Major Oliver Willard.” Thatthe said Letter is of the proper Hand Writing of the said M r Hurd, the Deponent having seen himwrite. And the Deponent verily believes that the true reason why his application for a Grant of