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682 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE
selves to any further charge about the Title, among the Persons
so refusing was Isaiah Carpenter, against whom a Recovery hais
been lately obtained in Ejectment, wherein Major Small a
reduced officer was Lessor of the plaintiff, in whose Grant the
Possessions of' the said Carpenter was situate.
I. That this Deponent remembers that about a year ago nine
Ejectments were brought under New York for Lands to the
Westward of the Green Mountains, one of them against the said
Isaiah Carpenter, another against Justin Olin, who had settled on
Major Smalls said Grant, knowing it was granted to Major
Small having purchased under New Hampshire since the passing
of the Majors Grant, and upon Condition not to pay his
Purchase Money unless his Title was secured to him under New
Hampshire. Another against James Breakenridge, who had
settled on Wallumschack Patent, Four against Persons in Prince
Town. And two against some Persons on a Grant of this Province of-New York to the Revd Michael Slaughter a reduced Regimental Chaplain. That thereupon the Inhabitants of this Part
of the Country in general declared these suits were only brought
to frighten them, and that they never would be tried.
K. That this Deponent attended the Circuit Court held last
June in the City of Albany, when four of these Ejectihents were
tried, vizt those agt James.Breakenridge Samuel Rose one of the
prince Town Defts Isaiah Carpenter, Josiah Fuller one of the
Inhabitants on the Grant to Revd Mr Slaughter-that Breakenridge made no Defence, his Possession being within Twenty
miles from Hudsons River, against the other three Verdicts were
found by Special luries, on Trials that appeared wholly fair to
this Deponent, and to some of the leading Persons interested
under New Hampshire, and particularly to one Bliss Willoughby,
who acted there as Trustee fobr the New Hampshire Claimants,And this Deponent well remembers that after the said Trials.some of the Defendts and many other of the leading People under
the Claim of New Hampshire, went to some of the Proprietors
under New York, then in Albany, owned their Title to be good
confessed their moderation, and declared they could only blame
the Government of New Hampshire for granting their lands, and
themselves for contending against the New York Proprietors,