Mat y had granted that to them, so that I conclude it would be more inconvenient to keep it than to part with it.

Therefore Judge Palmer having an interest in East-Jersey

@ an influence with the

Governor there, on his giving mee his obligation to pay as a fine the summ of £60. to the King in case hee should not think fit to forgive it @ the rent of twenty shillings p r ann. @ to defend the title, I gave him a lease of

the Reversion of it

To the Sixteenth concerning Rockaway Meek Sfc

Mr Santen poor man neither understands his own nor others concerns, hee was one of the Council himself when Cap* Palmer petitioned for licence to purchase this land, lying without the meers

@

bounds of Hempsted @ when the same was granted, @ before hee had had his patent granted, the people of Hempstead were summoned to appear to show cause, if they had any why it should not bee granted, Thereupon one person came to mee the meers

@ told mee that

it

was his land @ that it was within

@ bounds of Hempstead on which I ordered him to put a Caveat in to the Secry oflice s

against the passing of Judge Palmers patent, and then the Surveyor went to survey the lands accompanied by some of the Inhabitants of Hempsted, to show him their bounds [Vol. I.]

who returning this lands

meers @ bounds the patent was passed in which Capt n Palmer is expressly bounded where hee adjoins to Hempsted by their line, And, wherein hee says the Hempsted people were frighted to let their Suits fall, its quite otherwise, for this Pearsall, upon the granting of this Patent got into possession of this land, inasmuch as Judge Palmer was forcet to commence suits against him Where after it had sometime depended, Pearsall finding that to insist on his pretence would not avail him, suffered judgement to goe against Mm, and as for his being frightened into it by Capt n Palmers being Judge, there's noe such thing tor on purpose he withdrew himself @ left the management of that Court to his Collegue Judge Nicolls and as for the lands being the only pasture of the town its wholly false for its noe pasture at all, being all woodland, and that town having a plain of upwards of 40,000 acres of good pasture without a stick upon it @ as for its value I believe Judge Palmer would think himself obliged to Cap 1 Santen or any others that would give him ,£200. to bee without their