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.

And your Memorialist further begs Leave to remind your Exccl>-vicy, Tliat yoni Excellency was thereupon pleased, in pi-, v-y V your Memorialist, by an Order of your Excellency in

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Council of the third day of July last, to refer the Subject matter of your said Memorialists petition, to a Committee of this Honourable Board' who, in Consequence of such your Excellency's Reference, did, on the twenty Eighth day of February last, as your Memoriahst iiath been informed, among other tilings, make Report unto your Excellency, " Tliat they apprehended the " Claim of the said Massachusets Bay Colony, to the said Mannor " of Livingston, was not well founded," for the reasons contained in the said Report.