Before they left England, they werepromis'd 5 pounds in money p'' head, of wliich they have received nothing att all.

It was likewise promis'd, tliat on their arrival there, each of them should receive Cloaths, utencils, tools and other Conveniency's belonging to Husbandry, all which were sent with them from England for their use, but of these they receiv'd but very little.

They were moreover to have a Grant of 40 acres of land to each person, but it was never perform'd.

On tlieir lauding at New-York they were quartered in tents on .he Comon and divided in six Compaynies, over each of which was a Captain appointed to Comand them (of which number John Conrad Weiser arriv'd here in london 1718 :) with an allowance of 15X per annum each, but not one farthing lias been hitherto paid them.

About the same time took the said Gover^ without and against

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their Consent many cliildren from them, and bound them to severall of tlie Inhabitants of tliat province till they should arrive to the age of 21 years, particularly two Sons from Captain Weiser, one of twelve and another of 13 years of age, by which means they were depriv'd of the Comfort of their Cliildrens' Company and education as w^ell as the assistance and Support they might in a small time have reasonably expected from tliem.

In the fall of that year those that were living, (tlien it must be ol^serv'd tliat during their voiage thither, and after their landing a great number of tliem weredea^l ;) were remov'd to a tract of land belonging to one Mr Livingston, where they liv'd in houses erected by themselves till tlie Spring following, when they were order'd to the woods to make pitch and tair, and continued there near 2 years, but as the land was improper to raise any sort of naval stores in any Considerable quantity, their labours turn'd to a different account, and the profits of building and improving the lands fell to a private person, they being not able to make more then near 200 barrils of pitch and tair.