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CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTS.
Slcpur, Nathaniel Martin, Daniel Frazer, Noah White, John Marten, 'William Thomson, David Thomson, Samuel Thomson ,James Thomson , James Horner, John Kandy, Silveneus Owen, Noah Dewey, AVilliam Bell, Mathew Miller, John Robart,Samnel Miller, James Miller, Joel Woodworth, Richard Rogers, James Penoek, Tim Bartholomy, Petre Tlicms, JohnStrong, James Mann, Solomon Strong, Joseph Downer, Uriah Curtis, Abner Chamberlin, Moses Cadwell, Oliver Taylor,Alexander Brink, Wilder Willard, Mathias Rust, Phineas Rust, Jona: Matthew, Oliver Rust, Zcbulon Lee, Phinehas Strong,Timothy Knooks, Abijali Lamphear, John Peake, John Henry, Daniel Short, Danel Waldo, John Hoisington, Rufus Carpenter,Joab Iloisington, Thomas Cooper, AVilliam Dean, AVillard Dean, AVilliam Dean, John Campton, Donal Fraser, Gad: Smith,John Griffin, Taylor Brooks, Eber-. Church, Thos Butterfield, Jas Rogers, Simon Stevens, Joseph AVood, Ebenezer FullerJunr, Cornelius Baker, Nathaniel Baker, Daniel AVhipple, Asa Davis, Ben: Hennery, AVm AVilliams, Danl Whipple, ThomasPollard, Ebenezer AVhipple, Ger: AVhipple, AVm Dawes, Daniel Sargents.
County of Cumberland ss: Be it Remembered that on tne Twenty Sixth Day of January onethousand seven hundred and seventy three Personally came and appeared before me Samuel WellsEsquire one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and one of his Majesty’s Justices ofthe Peace, for tlie same County, Israel Curtis, Esquire, and Malichi Church Yeoman, both of y esame County , who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God depose and saythat they were severally present and did see the several persons whose names are signed to theannexed Petition-to his most Excellent Majesty and the Duplicate thereof respectively sign theirnames thereto voluntarily and of their free accord, and that the Several Persons Avho have so signedthe same are Inhabitants of the County of Cumberland or of the County of Gloucester on the WestSide of Connecticut River within the Province of New York.
Sami, Wells.
Secretary’s Office New York 5 th February 1773. The Preceeding are true copies of their res-pective originals.
Attest Gw. Banyar D Secry
DEPOSITION OF COL. DAVID WOOSTER.
City of New York, ss. David 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, beingduly sworn, maketh oath, that as a reduced officer as aforesaid, lie obtained pursuant to hisMajesty’s Proclamation for that Purpose, a Grant under the Great Seal of the Province of New-York , for three thousand acres of Land, on the East Banks of Lake Champlain, within a Mile anda Quarter of the Fort there, that about five years since, and after the Deponent had obtained thesaid Grant, on visiting those Lands he found five Families Avhich had then lately settled, some ofAvhom pretended to have a Claim there under a Grant from the Province of New Hampshire , andsome of them pretending no Right at all, promised the Deponent immediately to leave the saidLands; the others this Deponent then served Ejectments on, Avhich issued out of the InferiorCourt of Common Pleas for the County of Albany , Avhereupon they also submitted, and desired theDeponent to give them Leases of Part of the said Lands, Avhich this Deponent consented to, gavethem Permission to remain on the Lands, acknowledging him to be their Landlord, until it wasconvenient for him to return and give them leases in Form ; that for some Time past there hasprevailed in that part of the Country, a Spirit of Disorder and Licentiousness in Opposition to theJustice of this Province, among numbers of People Avho have seated themselves on the Landsgranted by the Province of New York, to the reduced officers and others, some claiming the sameLands under New Hampshire , and others Avithout any such Pretence of Claim, avIio are supportedin such their Proceedings by a Combination formed for the support of themselves, and everyPerson indiscriminately who will settle any of those Lands in Opposition to the Titles granted