I have said nothing more of the Palatines in my other letter than that his Excellency was gone up to set them to work on preparing the Pine trees, not having then received any clear account of their deportment, but since I closed that I have had one full and particular v.'hich it will require more time to give it your Lordsliips, especially at length, and with the Coi')ys of some Papers requisite to a thorough prospect of their proceedings than I now liave, for I expect to be called on every minute, for this, however, I will endeavour to be as particular as I can now.

About a fortnight agoe his Excellency having received information from their Overseers and other officers, tliat these People had taken a resolution neither to work in making Pitch and Tarr nor to remain on tlie land tliey are settled upon for that purpose, but even by force, if they could not otherwise effect it, to remove to Schohary (a Tract of resumed Lands) and tliat tljey had actually hindred the Survej'ors from laying out more Lots to them, strengthening each other in these Resolutions by a Secret

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Association, his Excellencj was forced to send for a Detachment of Sixty from the Garrison of Albany to meet him at tlie Manor of Levingston, which is about two miles from their Settlement on the West side of the River, so soon as his Excellency arrived there, he sent to all the Vilhiges on that side of the Eiver to know how tliey dared disobey his orders, and hinder the Surveyors and other officers to do their duty.