Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III
A certeyne Lybell being this day read called y^ ptest of a comittee of Eastliampton wherein they contemptuously opose the orders of tlie Governo- and Councill for the layeing out land in that Town and it appeareing that in a most riotous mutinous L Sedithious manner they the Sayd pretended Comittee did publish their Sayd lybell by Eeate of Drum & afterwards did affix the Same on the publick meeting house of the Sayd town It's therefor ordered that Samuell Mullford Rob* Dayton Sam' Parsons Ben]"- Concklin Thomas Osborne & John Osborne bee by vertue of a warr' taken into y^ custody of a Messeng^' of this l^oard to ausw^ tlie premisses liere this day forthnight.
Another Lybell of the same nature by Thomas Oslwre Stephen Hedges & Mary Perkins being likewise read Ordered That Stephen Hedges & the husband of Mary Perkins bee lykewise taken into custody to answ"^ the same the same day * Ordered lykewise that Jeremy Concklyn Dan' Bishop Nathaneel Bishop bee likewise taken into the Custody of the messenger to answer Ij'kewise this day forthnight.
Ordered lykewise that I\I Hubbard bring up along with him one or more of p^sons to whom hee layd out y^ land by ord^ of this board who are in feare from the threats of tiie albremenconed persons & theyr accomplices.
In the difference between M'' prudden minister of Jamaica an his parishioners It's ordered that they pay to the Sayd ]\I'' prudden what is due to him by agreement on reccord in the To\\n booke -- and that when that's don if the Sayd paris]iion''3 have any thing to object against theyr said minister they shall bee heard