being seized of the same as aforesaid, did peaceably possess the same, until some time in December last, since which he hath met with frequent Disturbances by people of the Massachusets Colony surveying part of the said Tract of Land under pretence of its lying within the said Colony, and stirring up several of your Petitioners Tenants, disuading them from holding the same under him, and promising them Grants and Patents under the said Colony of the Massachusets-Bay for farms held by demise from your Petitioner.

That accordingly your Petitioner hath been informed and doth verily believe, that sundry of his said Tenants together with some persons of the County of Dutches, have petitioned the General Coui't at Boston for Grants and Patents for tlie same.

That your Petitioner hath been obliged in order to quiet the disturbances occasioned by the said pretence of Title, and to assert his right to the same lands to commence one action of Trespass, and another action of I^ectment, in both of wliich the Defendants have compromised the matter by taking new Leases from your Petitioner, and giving security for tlie payment of the Costs, but that his having recourse to the usual process at law, is so far from being hkely to put a stop to the said Disturbances, that he did lately receive a Letter signed 01"^ Partridge in the words following to Witt " March 24^^ 1752 Sir, in consequence of an order of a Committee of the General Court of the Province of Massachusets-Bay, to lay out Equivalents in the Province land, I have begun on the East side of Tackinick BaiTick, and laid' out a large Farm which encompasses the dwellings of Michael Halenbeeck and Josiah Loomis, imd yon may depend on it the Province will assert their rights to said lands.