That your Petitioner and his Associates are in Danger of being crowded out of all their ancient Inheritance, and of being rendered Vagabonds upon the Face of the Earth ; and are therefore obliged to resort to his Majesty's Justice k Goodness for an effectual Protection, and being advised that they have good Title to the Lands, as yet unsold, by the Law of Nature and Nations, that the Crown has, in all Times, treated the Indian Rights, as deserving some Respect, and presuming that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to encourage their Design of becoming his civilized Subjects, and their forsaking also the Idolatry of their Fathers, they intend to apply for the Royal Grant and Confirmation, to them and their Heirs, that they may also have such a Title as may be maintained in the Kings Courts of Law, and afford tliem a competent Protection against all Trespassers.

But inasmuch as the barbarous and unlettered State of the American Indians, rendered it impossible for them to keep Records, & your Petitioners cannot ascertain what Lands have been, or remain still unsold

Your Petitioner now, in Behalf of himself and the Rest of the Montawk Tribe of Indians, most humbly prays your Honour, to give Directions for Prosecutions of Intrusion, against all such as occupy any Lands between Montawk-Point and Sagg-Harbour, to discover what Lands remain unsold, unless the Inhabitants of East-Hampton do, by a Day to be fixed, shew, before your Honoui', how far their Indian Purchases, bona Fide made do, or ought to extend: And that your Honor would be pleased to grant and confirm to said Indians (who will afterwards give in their Names) all the Lands on Montawk-Point, that may appear to be still unsold by their Ancestors