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

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persoaa eo see the same executed in the Niglit of tlie tenth of January last, whioh however was prevented by the VigiluncG of your Memorialists Servants, who were obliged to Arm themselves in their defence -- A Conduct in your Memorialist's humble Opinion, not only vastly injurious to the Honour of His Majesty^s Government in this province but also tending to promote in the said Tenants a Neglect of and disobedience to the same, and found by sad Experience, almost fatal to your Memorialists Interest in the Lands aforesaid. In so much tliat some of your Memorialist's Tenants, dwelling on the said Lands have kept the Servants of your Memorialist by force of Arms from approaching their possessions, and for the proof of those Matters your Memorialist offered the said Committee to produce the most incx^ntestible Evidence on Oath, which however was not necessary, as the said David Ingersoll was present, and did not deny the legist ajticle of the above Kelation.