I have taken for that piu'pose an adjacent tract, belonging to M'' Thomas Fullerton who is now Concerned in her Majestys Customes in Scotland, who has by his letter of Attorney given me power to dispose of the same, which tract contains about Eight hundred acres of very good land, which will cost more in proportion than the Lands purchased of M'' Livingston, he reckoning the neiglibourliood of that people more than half tlie price, M' Fullerton reaping noe benefit from tliat Scituation. If I find them streigatened in ground I shall endeavour to find more in tlire ncighboiuliood at easy rates, for I find the extent of ground a great encouragement to the people.

I have met with great opposition from many of the ill disposed Inhabitants, who dayly insinuated that there were better lands for them on the Fronteers, and that they were ill used in being planted there ; being informed from all hands that these Suggestions had been of iibrce enough to make the people idle and backward, and sometliing worse, on my returne from the Jerseys I visited them againe, having remained Some days amongst them, to appearance convinced them of the ill intentions of those who had misled tliem, that they could not follow the work they were destined for, there being no Pine on these lands on the Frontiers, which they had a mind to, besides they must lay their account of labouring there as tlie Israelites did of old, with a sword in one hand and the axe in the other ; having by these meanes to my thinking quieted them I left them, but v/as overtaken a few miles off by an Express wWch aapainted me that they had been in a mutinous manner with their officers, declaring they would