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.

The small prospect tliey had of being in a Capacity to serve the nation, who had so generously and Cliaritably advanced very great sums of money for their relief and Support and the Impossibility there was of raising Corn, Cattell, and other provisions for their subsistance on such ordinary and almost barren land oblig'd them to petition the aforesaid Governour, that they might be put in Possession, and settle on tlie land CaU'd Schorie which the Indians had given to the late Queen Ann for their use he answer'd, that tlio' the land was theirs, he could nor would not take it from them, neither could he settle tliem there, because it would oblige him to maintain to many Garrisons.

The said Governor thought fitt some time after to visittali the .Villages, where they were setled and view tlie people tliere, who with one consent apply "d to him again, humbly praying they might go and inliabit the above promised land, upon wliich he in a passion stamped upon the ground and said, here is your land (meaning the almost baren Kocks,) where you must live and die.