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Major Popham, and several others accepted the Offer and lent the Money to the Company, but Major Balfour and several other Officers refused these Terms.
Several of the Officers, in their Evidence, say, a notion prevailed the Gov. might make some claim for the Company.
The Letters were not consider’d by Major Popham as encouragement to the
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