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Buch improvements to be made either by permission or otherwise, and 

 that he never sowed any grass seed on lots 221 and 221 or caused any 

 to be sowed for the purpose of occupancy or otherwise, and that the 

 said Smith did not occupy lots 221 and 222 or any parts of them on 

 September 23; 1873, or October 18, 1879, or during the season of 1873 

 and 1879, and that said Smith did give parties permission to cut wild 

 hay on said lots supposing they belonged to the State. I further 

 swear I have, known these lots for the past sixteen years. 



MARCELLO BL ANCHARD. 

 Subscribed and sworn before me, \ 



this 11th day of April, 1885. ) 



Lewis L. Smith, 



Justice of the Peace. 



I hereby certify that I know the party, Marcello Blanchard, signing 

 the annexed affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity. 



LEWIS L. SMITH, 



Justice of the Peace. 



STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 



r ss. : 

 Fbanklin County. J 



Nathaniel P. Lovering, of the town of Franklin, and county of 

 Franklin, and State of New York, being duly sworn, deposes and says 

 his age is 65 years; be is now a resident of said town o^ Franklin, 

 and has been for over fifty years; he is well acquainted with the 

 lines and location of lots 221 and 222, township 10, Old Military 

 tract, Franklin county, N. Y., has and does now reside very near them; 

 has resided many years very near them; his business and pleasure have 

 called him on to them very frequently for many years past, which has 

 given him a thorough knowledge of them and an opportunity to know 

 what has and has not taken place on them in the way of occupancy, 

 cultivation, etc. Since the year 1831 or 1832, the deponent has resided 

 within a few rods of what is now the site of the " Loon Lake House," 

 kept by Ferd. Chase. Since 1831, the lots 221 and 222, afore referred 

 to, lay Very near where he has resided so long ; that he knows of his 

 own knowledge that neither of said lots have been cultivated in any 

 shape, that no grass seed has been sown upon them or tame hay cut 

 on them since 1860, in fact never; that wild hay has been cut on 

 them, and is and has been customary to do on any all partly timbered 

 and non-resident wild lots, without regard to ownership; that he and 

 his father have cut wild hay on said lots 221 and 222 during nearly all 

 the years since 1831 up to 1883, since which time, viz., 1883, no hay 

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