By Order In Councill J: Spragge Seer, Which sayd Order the sayd Josiah Hubbard as in duty bound did follow and obey according to the tennor and effect thereof Yett notvvitiistanding Sam' Mulford, Robert daiton, Samuell Parsons Benjamin Conkling, Thomas Osburne, Jolm Osburne, and all at Easthampton within tlie county ot Suffolk aforesayd did confederate together to bring his Ma'i^s authority into contempt and scorn and particularly in contempt of the sayd Ord'' of Council and against the peace of our sayd Lord the King with fforce and arras did upon the sixth day of October In the yeare of our Lord 1686. att Easthampton in tlie county of Suffolk aforesayd in the daytime Riotously Tumultously Contemptously and unlawfully assemble tliemselves together with diverse others unknown By beating of the drum without any warrant or authority whatever from his sayd Majestye and tliere did publish and affix upon the wall of tlieir meeting house a certaine Scandalous and Libellous paper which follows in these words

PAPERS RELATING TO SUFFOLK COUNTY. 353

viz* A Protest Whereas Robert Kedy Jolm Parsons Jacob daitoii Samueli Slierry Simon Hilliard Jolm Eicliardson Oliver Morris and Jolm ffield have procured certain Lands within the bounds of Easthampton on Long Island in tlie province of New Yorke Belonging to the proprietors of the said land viz<^ Thomas Baker Thomas Chalfield Jeremiah Conkling Stephen Rodgers and others with them to' whojn the sayd Land hath been granted and Eatifyed as by their pattent deeds of Conveyance and LaAv both of England and the province aforesayd may ffully appeare to bee measured marked and to be Entered in the book of Records to them the sayd Kedy, Parsons, daiton, Sherry, Hilliard, Richeson, Morris, and field as by the sayd Entry appeareth And whereas wee Samuel Mulford Robert daiton Sam^ Parsons Benjamin Conkling Thomas Osburne and John Osburne are appoyuted by the proprietors of the Land in the bounds of the sayd township of Easthampton to defend and preserve the Right of the sayd proprietors In upon and Unto the sayd Lands as by their order to us In that behalfe given appeareth : Wee the said Sam^ Mulford Rob* daiton Sami Parsons Benjamin Conkling Thomas Osburne and John Osburne in pursuance of our sayd Trust doe make and declare this public protest against the sayd Robert Kedy John Parsons Jacob daiton Sami Sherry Simon Hilliard John Richeson Oliver Morris and John ffield That is to say wee doe declare to them and all men that soe much of the Land lying in the sayd Bounds of Easthampton as w^as not formerly before their procuring it to be measured for tliem layd out to other persons But it remained undivided betweene the proprietors aforesayd as hath been by them the sayd Kedy k^ or any of them been procured to be measured marked and Bounded to them or any of them the sayd Kedy &c is the Lands of the sayd proprietors whose Comittee we the protestors are and doe protest hereby against the sayd persons that have measured marked or recorded the Same to tliemselves or procured the same to bee done and against the sayd act of them and Every of them as a Tresspasse against the propriety of the proprietors thereof and done against tiieir Lawnill Interest therein and that their sayd Entry nut being by Law is Refellable in and by the Law -- And doe hereby forbid and w^arne the sayd Kedy &o Vol.