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.

By their Deputys they returned for answer, tliat when the Surveyors came to lay out the land, the People called them out, told them 'twas worth nothing, they would have no more, so that 'twas needless to survey it & that they would have the lands at Schohary which the Queen had ordered them by their Contract.

His Excellency replyed that he had often told them that if any man by chance had a bad Lott, the Surveyors on application would lay him out another, as they were ordered, that those who had cleared Avhat was given them, migiit upon application to the Surveyors, have more, and if what he had akeady purchased was not sufficient he would purchase more, provided it lay on the river, and near the Pines, that they might ffollow the manufacture they were destin'd for, and obliged to by their Contract. That as to the ]l,ands of Schohary its the malice of those who would have them for their Slaves that put them on demanding it, for tliat those Lands the Indians had not yet parted with, nor were they fit for their laljour, no Pine being within Twenty miles of it, that it would be impossible to subsist inemtuere, or cleiend them against y^ Erench and French liidlans, mid besldf s tliey had obliged themselves to settle on such lands as he should assign them, and then desired their fi.nal answer, which was that they would have the lands appointed them by the Queen ; Whereupn his Excellency, in writing, told tliem tliat since neither their duty, allegiance or regard to her Majesty's unparallelled Charity and goodness in taking them up, and p>rovidiiig for them when they were starving, and abandon'd by all ye world besides, had been of any force to keep y^ within the bounds of their duty, and since they had no regard to a solemn contract signed by them, he was come to require and enforce the executioa of it, Copys and Translations of which they had in theii- own language.