Referring to the Challenges your Governm' makes to Lands claimed by this Province : The affair is of great Moment, and I shall lay it before the General Assembly of this Province, which will meet the 28^^ Instant, And I shall use my utmost Endeavour that every thing may be done consistent with Justice, & that may promote a good Harmony between the two Governments, Which I look upon as a matter that may tend much to the promoting his Majtys Honour & Interest in these Colonies, & defeat our French neighbors of any Expectations they may form out of our Altereasions among our selves. I am with great respect,

Your ExeeUencys most liumble & most Obedient Servant His Excy Govern' Chnton. S. Phips.

MAI*OR or L1V1»*€«T0N. 739

ANOTHER PETITION OF THE PROPRIETOR OF LIVINGSTON MANOR.

To his Excellency The Honorable George Clkntoh Captain General and Governour in Chief in and over the province of New York and the Territories thereon depending in America Vice Admii-al of the Same and Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet --

In Council. The Memorial of Robert Livingston Jim*" of the Mannor of Livingston in the County of Albany and province of Nei* York. Humbly Sheweth

That your Memorialist begs Leave to remind your Excellency, that on or about the sixteenth day of April, in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and fifty two, Your Memorialist preferred his humble petition unto Your Excellency setting forth his Title to the said Mannor under his late Majesty King James the Second, which from the Time of his said Majesty's Grant, hath peaceably devolved to him thro' his Ancestors who as well as your Memorialist, have always duly paid their Quit-rents, and Taxes for the Support of his Majesty's Government in tliis province, in a Confidence of their Secm-ely holding the said Tract of Land under its protection And tliat your Memorialists Title to the said Tract continued unquestioned, until joiir Memorialists possession of the same was unlawfully disturbed, by persons inhabiting in the Massachusets Bay Colony, in Conjunction with some of your Memorialist's Tenants, in tlie Manner and under the pretences set forth in the said Petition Whereupon your Memorialist (as he conceived liis Title unto the said Tract of Land under this Government to be legal and valid) prayed your Excellency's protection in the Manner in the said Petition mentioned.