ermncnt vnder Jacob Leysler the said Leysler sent [your petitioners freeholders] of Staten Island to comand some of the Inhabitants thereon to Assist one Johannis Burger vSergeant of the fort vnder Leyslers Comand to goe to Elizabeth Towne to secure and seize on some porke then belonging to M'^ plowman late Collector of New Yorke, vnder the pretence of the said Collector being considerably Indebted to the King And was Absented you^" pet^'^ Amongst severall others was Comanded to goe who out of true zeal for their Maj^'^s service did goe to Elizabeth Towne ,with the said Burger and others who did their seize About fifty barrells of Beefe and porke the which belonged to the said plowman and was brought here to new yorke and delivered to said Leysler, as yo"^ pet^'s are Informed did Imploy the same for the service of the Souldiers then at Albany, for the security of their Majt'^s Subjects there Against the ffrencb, Yet soe it is may it please yo*" honors that yo'' pefs perticulerly are now sued by the 'said plowman for the said Provisions at the next Court of Sessions at Staten Island Contrary to the true meaning of the proclamation Issued out by his late Excellency Collon^i Slaughter and y® Assembly yo^" pet^^ Judging it very hard that they Alone i'^ould be forced to bare the burthen of it when soe many others ■were concerned And the whole Country received the benefitt of it

you'' [pefs] humbly prayes yo^ hon^^ consideration in the premises And that yo'" honor's will order the said action to cease till the time lymited in tlie proclamacon be expired, And in the meane time to Consider some way to ease yo' peti"s from the whole burthen thereof, by ordering sattisfaction to be made to the said plowman by the publique or by Allotting each person that was concerned therein to pay their E quail proporceons of the same And yo^ pefs in Dv* bound will ever pray &,c* Endorsed,