Whereupon one of the Committee answered that if we could prove so much " they would have no more to do but to withdraw and surrender." That your Memorialist offered to give the said Committee further Evidence, to this purpose, if they would go to your Memorialist's Mannor House, Whicli tliey refused, And afterwards they proceeded to Taquanuck with your Memorialist, where a great number of people being collected together, they advised them to rest quiet and satisfied till the Division Liiae was setled, and such of them as were your Memorialist's Tenants to pay their Rents honestly to their Landlord.

And your Memorialist begs Leave further to shew unto your Excellency, that altho' the Eusiness of the said Committee was to enquire into the State of the said Lands, and your Memerialist had given them sufficient Inforojation relating thereto, to convince them of liis Right to the same, and offered them

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furtlier Evidence to the same purpose, wliich tliey refused, yei your Memorialist believes that their advice to the people of Taquanuck, proceeded not from a desire that Justice might be done to your Memorialist, but was only designed to quiet him at that Time, and to procure an Opportunity of executing their Scheme without the presence or Interruption of your Memorialist For that after your Memorialist had left the said Committee and repaired to his Mannor House they gave Orders, as your Memorialist is informed and doth believe, to survey the Lands petitioned for by William Bull and others. Which was accordingly done on the eighteentli Instant by seven New England Men & four of your Memorialists Tenants sous, who ran out a Tract of Land containing ten Miles in Lengtli and four in Breadth or thereabouts in your Memorialists said Mannor. Since which time they have also taken possession of the said Lands by beginning to cutt a Tree-fence round it.