in pieces and threw them
down the falls. John Cameron, one of the Scotch tenants, in his
affidavit, as to the manner in wdiich they Avent into possession under
Col. Reid, states, " That the persons" (the tenants in possession)
" did agree voluntarily, to remove from Col. Reid's land, till the
King's pleasure should be known, provided Col. Reid would pur-
chase their whole crops then on the ground, that they might not
lose their labor, which Col. Reid consented to, and paid them the
full value for it accordingly." The affidavit also states, "That the de-
ponent was much surprised to see, among the rioters, Joshua Hyde,
one of the three men, who had entered into a written obligation
with Col. Reid, not to return again, and to whom Col. Reid, on
that account, had paid a sumof money for his crops." *
* Mr. TnoMPSON, in hia history of Vermont, in stating this transaction, eays
nothing about, the voluntai-y remoral of the New Hampshire claimants, and a
68 niSTor.Y or addisqn county.
A tract of '' three thousand acres of land on the e^ot bank of
Lake Champlain, -within a mile and a quarter of the fort there,"
■was granted under the great seal of the Province of New York, " to
David W<o3Ti:r, f of New Haven, in the Colony of Connecticut,
Esc^uirc. being a captain on half pay, reduced from His Majcst^'-'s
fiifty-first regiment.-' This tract was in the north part of Addison
and probably extended into a part of Panton. In his deposition
laid before the governor and council, dated February 20, 1773, ho
states, among other things, that " on visiting these