As one of ye Inspectors of ye Palatins & of y^ storige computed to ye 25 March 1714 which his ExceU: gov. hunter is charged withall. His Salary from 24th Augst 1710 to 1 Nov. 1711

included in ye gen" acct ^118 18 --

To ye 25 March 1712 included in ye gen" acct.. . 39 14 6

To ye 25 June 1712 included in ye ace* of Incidents 25

To ye 25 Sept. 1712 included in ye ace* of Incidents 25

To ye 25 of March 1713 included in ye acct of Incidents 50

258 12 6

Storige of Provisions to 25 March 1714 i^214 18 11 The half agreed upon is 107 9 5,

MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. 687

ADAM VKOOMAN TO GOV- HUNTER.

To His Excelency Robert Hunter Esq' Capt* Gen" and Governour In Cheife In and over His Maj^ies Province of New York & New Jersey and Vice Admirall of the Same &c: May it Please your Excellency

As In duty bound by my Last to you I give your Excy an ace* How the Palintines threatened In a Rebelious manner If I should build or mannure the Land at Schore that your Excellcy was Pleased to Grant me a Pattent for and In Please your Excellency I have mannured a great part of the Land and Sowed Considerable grain thereon they still drove their horses on it by night, : I then hired my sones to go with me and build me a house I was their and was making a stone house 23 foot Squar and had so high so that I had Layd the Beames for the Chamber I having at the same time an Indian house about 200 yards off for my self workmen & negroe to sleep in, but on the 4^'^ day of this Instant In ye night following they had a Contryvance to tie beUs about horses necks and drive them too and fro In which time they pulled my house Stones and aU to the Ground the next day I spok with some of them and they used such Rebelious Expressions that was never heard off : but they told me before now when they had done all : they would Run among the Indians John Conradus Wiser has been the Ring Leader of all factions for he has had his son some time to Live among the Indians and now he is turn'd their Interpreter so that this Wiser and his Son talk with the Indians very often and have made treates for tliem and have been busy to buy Land at many places which is Contrary to your Excellency s Proclamation, and has made the Indians drunk to that degree to go and mark of Land with them: and I am no wayes secure of my Life their for after I came away they went and pulld my son off of the waggon and beat him and said they would kill liim or his father or any body Else that came their so tliat my son was forced to come away : Likewise they say they care for nobody John Conradus Wiser & 2 or 3 more has made their Escape bv way of Boston and have said