And I !:n.>w not aii}' just Cause or good Reason, why I should be V]Uri mo\'S'ed and desti-oyed. So I am Ibi'Ct'd to come to this C.wV: of Groit Erilr.in^ to seek Re'iei'lbr my sell' and others who eni])i(^y('d m-', which I hope will be took into Consideration, that I ma, l^e dis'jharged and freed from unjust I'rosecution, and my Se.curi ! ii-s indemn' jy'd , and a final Determination setled thereupon for a Pu')li<-k Good.

W'lic'iis t\e Defiire and Tiequest oj His Most Sacred Majesty Iu7ig George's Most Ilumhle^ Loyally Fuilhful and Ohedient Suljedj

Samuel Mulfob.d.

TIriTsE OK Assembly Die Vcneri<i, Sept 13. 1717.

Col Rulsen reported from the committee appointed to consider a Memoi-ial entitled Jl Memcrial of Several Jiggrievunces and Oppcssnns &.C. That t'.ey are of Oj'inion, tlie same is most falsi", niMlicious & scandalous Paper, reflecting upon the Governor and Government and tSe ul.ole Constitution of this Colony and of PiM-nicious C )nsequence, and hu:nhly Conceive, that tlic Thanks of t' is It-, us;^, ought to be returned his Excellency for Communicating th:e same, and tl:at he be addressed tf use his Interest at tlie Court of Great Eritain, to find tlie Author in order to be brought to Justice, and in the Meantime his Excellency Avould please to acquaint t'le Indians of the five Nations, Tiuit we utterly ab'or and dtt( st that Suggestion in the Said paper or Libel, of reducing tlie Indians by Force, and possessing their Lands, for the Steadiness of those Indians to the Interest of Great Britain, all the last War with France, it is that we owe in a great mea-iMre, orr present Security : whicli was read & agreed to by the House.