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
for it.
To the Seventeenth concerning Mr Grahams insinuation
Mr Santen is in the right that Mr Graham is Attorney-general @ supervisor of all Patents @ soe made upon Mr Rudyard's going from this place to Barbadoes @ is a person understanding in the law, it being his whole business
Wherefore I thought it not fit to pass any patents without his