His Excellency was informed that a body of three or four hundred of them, were then passing the brook, the Deputyes among whom were the Captains, return'd to liim and in appearance seemed softened, and then went to the people who v/ere drawn up on the hill above the House, towards whom his Excellency marching with the Detachment, one of the Commissarys who had been with them told him they wanted to pay tlieir compliment to him, so his Excellency walked up to them, and ask'i them what tliey meant by appearing in arms, they told him what they had told the Commissarys, whereupon hisExcel^y ordered them home to their habitations, and being gone about a mile they discharged all their Firelocks, but their saying they came to pay their Compliment was only a Pretence, for they told two of their officers, as they were going home, that they came to relieve their Deputys in case they liad been confined.

The next day the Deputys came according to order with their answer, which begins indeed with a desire that liis ExceU<=y would assist them, that they may be settled in the lands of Schohary, but they soon forgot that humble stile, and told his Excellency tliat they had rather lose their lives immediately than remain where they are, tiiat they are cheated by the contract, it not being the same that was read to them in Eng'i There, the say, it runs thus, that seven years after they had had forty acres a head given them, they were to repay the Queen by Hemp, Mast Trees, Tar and Pitch or anything else, so that it may be no damage to any man in his Family. Upon these terms they will perform the c<)ntract, but to be forced by another contract to remain on these lands all their lives, and work for her Majesty for the ships use, that they will never doe.