from riudsuns Uiver tenninated in the Great Taqiiiinack Mountam) And pointing from the place where he then stood with the said Committee to the place where the said Line terminated, and running from thence with a com-se near South to Connecticut, which took in two thirds if not all the Lands contained in the petition of the said William Bull and otliers, and also told them that your Memorialists Ancestors had setled the same near seventy years ago And your Memorialist farther told the said Committee, tliat if they would accompany him Home he would shew tlicm his deeds, in order to convince tliem, if possible, of his Riglit, and afterwards desired the said Committee to inform the General Court of Massachusets Bay, of hh Title to the Lands, and that he hoped tliey would tliink it unreasonable to give your Memorialist any future disturbance.

That tho' your Memorialist conceived, tliat upon the Resolution of the said General Court of the Massachusetts Bay, and their Application to your Excellency to appoint Commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, the power of the said Committee was wholly determined. Yet as your Memorialist thought the said Committee was full} bent upon tlio Execution of tliat power, he endeavoured to disi:tia,de thejn from it by the above mentioned Reasons, clearly sensible that that power would not be less prejudicial to your Memorialist for not being unduly exercised.

And your MemoriaMst begs leave further to suggest to youi .Excellency that your Memorialist also' acquainted tlie said Committee of the Conduct of one David Ingersoll, an Lihabitant of the said Town of Sheffield, v/ho had been very industrious in seducing yuur Memorialists Tenants, and dissuading them from the payment of tlieir Rents, and that for such his Conduct he declared he had an Authority Irom th.e Government of tlie Massachusets Bay, to wlium he told tlic s'^ Tenants your Memorialisfs Land bcL>nged, and tliat he liad also frequent meetings with t]]e said Tenants, wliicli generall} ended in a Huzza for Boston Government, and a promise to obtain the I^nds lur them of the said Go\ ernment, and also that the said David Ingersoll, imder pretence of the same Authority, had issued Warrants against your Memorialists Clerk and Overseer, and attended in person wn the BaUif of Springfield and six other