Deposition of Jonathan Petit

Jonathan Pettit[1] of lawful age testifieth and saith that some time in the month of June last, (if I remember right) Timotheus[2], an Indian, who had lately lived at Sharon but, since they had sold to Thomas Barnes[3], had moved away, came to my house and expressed himself in a very earnest manner about the land which the Indians had once lived upon and claimed in Sharon.  He seemed to be desirous that I should assist him in endeavoring to obtain it, and in his discourse, said I vow it is my land and you know it is my land, and presently after, I swear I will have it, language that I never heard him use before.  He appeared to be very angry, but I thought him to be something in drink.  I have since understood that it was not the land that the Indians sold that he meant but the land that lies between that and the line that Colonel Preston[4] and Mr. Canfield[5], who were a committee sent by the General Assembly, had made and proposed for them to have if the owners of it would yield to it and the General Assembly would confirm it, and farther the deponent saith not. 

Jonathan Pettit

Dated October 15, 1754

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