dition against Canada, whicli they willingly and Chearfully did, and on their return, were tlieir arms taken from them, tho' all that went on the Expedition should have kept them by her late Majesty's particular order without paying them any wages or sallery (notwitlistandlng they were put on the Establishment of New-York and New Jersey or both, and the money receiv'd by the s^ Gouvernor,) they march'd home, where they found their lamilys allmost starv'd, no provision having been given them during their absence.

The winter following did the Inhabitants of tlie frontier Town of Albany desire the Governour, that they might have (being fearfull) the assistance of some of them to strengthen y° Garrison of tliat town from an Invasion of the Indians in Conjunction with tlie French of Canady, which tlie Governour agreeing to, they went accordingly, but were never paid.

In the second year of their abode at Livingston on the pitch wood three of their people were sent down to Coll: Hunter, Petitioning that he would be pleasVl ro order them their fuU allowance of provision, wdiich they never hitherto had, to which he ansvver'd, that they should return home, and he wou'd send orders after them, and about 8 days after, came this surprising message from him, that he had not receiv'd any subsistance for them from England, and tlierefore every one of them must sliift for liimseif, but not out of the Province.

This was the latter end of the year and winter just at hand, which is very severe, there being no provision to be had, and the people bare of Cloatlis, which occasi(jned a terrible Consternation amongst them, and particularly from the women and Children the most pityfull and dolerous Cryes and lamentations that Iiave perhaps ever been heard from any persons under tlie most wretched and miserable Circumstances, so that they were at last much against their wills put under tlie hard and greeting necessity of seeking relief from tlie Indians, upon which some of their Chiefs were suddenly dispatch'd away to the Indians by Avhom they were kindly receiv'd, and to whom they open'd tlieir miserable Condition, and that being wholly Cast of by tlie s'^ Governour, and left distituted of the means of living elsewhere, they intreated them to give 'em permission to settle on the tract of land caJi'd