Doc. xiii. 45G et seq. for the agreement between BeUomoiit, Liviug^stoa & Kidd, & Livingston's bond to Bellomont as security for Capt. Kidd.

MANOR or LIVINGSTON. 727

PETITION OF R. LIVINGSTON, JUN^.

To the Honourable George Clinton Captain General and Governour in chief over the Province of New York and Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admiral of the same and Admiral of the White Squadron of His Majesty's Fleet in Council. The Petition of Robert Livingston Junior of the Manor of Livingston in the County of Albany. Humbly Sheweth

That his late Majesty King James the Second by his Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this Province of New York, bearing date the twentieth day of July in tlie year of our Lord One thousand six iiuudred and eighty six, did grant and confirm unto Robert Livingston your Petitioners Grand Father deceased. All that Tract of Land called by the name of the manor of Livingston, lying in the County of Albany in the province aforesaid, about which he was at great charge Trouble and expence in purchasing the same from the Native Indians before he could obtain the said Grant, and particularly that pai-t thereof which is contiguous and adjoining to the colony of tlie Massachusetts Eay called and known by tlie name of Tackanack. That the said Robert Livingston by virtue of the said Letters Patent was dui-ing his life time and at the time of his death

and representative in England, "contrary (as the Assembly declared) to the duty and allegiance he owes to his Majesty and to the peace of this government."* He was suspended from the Council on the 20:h of April of the following year. Misfortune was not yet tired of him. The vessel in which he was a passenger was captured off Bristol by a French Privateer, and Mr.