What Great Britain, and M'" Lewingston added, here is y King, meaning the Governor, Wliereupon they beg"d his pardon, and that he would forgive them their Ignorance and Inadvertency.

To The second question they return'd this answer, that tlie people were so many, the land so small and the wags so bad, that it was impossible to agree with tlie Gentlemen on tlieir extravagant terms, especially after the vast expencc and labour they had had.

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not mentioning, that the Indians had given it to the Crown ibr their use, and that there was no direction imediately from his Majesty to confirm it to tliem, they being sent over with a promise of so much land p"" head, and if tliey serv'd any body, it must be tlie King and not a privat person.

They answer'd to the third point, that because they liv'd on the borders of the french as a frontier, and were liable to their dayly insults against whom they could scarcely stand, they were oblig'd to keep fair with tlie friendly Indians amongst Whom, they dwelt, wliicli was the only way to be protected and live in peace.

Governor Hunter then ordered, that those who would not agree with or turn tenants to those Gentlemen of Albany, to whom he had sold the land for 1500 pistoles shou'd remove from their habitations and Improvements and that they should make two lists, one of those that wou'd agree, the other of those tliat wou'd not agree with the Gentlemen, and tliat he soon expected an order from England to transplant them to another place, but no sucli thing was perform- d.