We believe that their Committee did Last May Enter into the Manor of Livingston (quietly possessed under a grant of this province about Sixty years without any pretence of the Massachusetts Bay) and are Informed that notwitlistanding the said Robert Livingston had then ofiered to shew them Ms Title and had actually shewn them a Coppy of t'n.e said report of the 28"^ ffebruary and also the report of their Generall Court of the 12^1^ of Aprill proposing To appoint Commissioners for the Settlement of the Boundarys in question and had represented to them the injustice of their proceedings and the undue means taken to Corrupt his Tenants and to induce them to disown his title and pay him no more Rents and even after the said Committee of the Generall Court had appeared Satisfied of the Injustice which had been done to him and had in his presence recommended to his Tenants To pay their rents and agree with him as well as they Could till the line was settled Yet Several persons did about ten days after proceed by order of the said Comme as we are Informed to the Surveying and running a line within the said mannor

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and we believe that Instead of the said Committees agreeing with him " that all proceedings sliould be stop't till further Orders were taken by the Two Governments" They did Only recommend to his Tenants tlie Conduct above set forth. But that he agreed to give lip his mannor or any part of it To them or to any of his Corrupted Tenants or to lay aside the Exerciseing his just right within his mannor as is in part Insinuated we think is against reason to Believe. And as to Josiah Lumis M^' Livingston has proved before us tliat he was for about Six years a Tenant at Will on his Mannor and that about two years agoe he was warned to go oft" and M'' Livingston requested him to provide some other place out of his Mannor whereon the said Lumis by Letters shown to us, Beged leave of M'' Livingston to stay so long as to raise one crop of Summer Grain and promised then to remove which request M^ Livingston complyed with but when he had gathered that Crop M"* Livingston was Informed that Lumis was preparing to put in another Crop whereupon he sent Lumis notice tluit if le did put in another Crop he might depend on it hi should not rcnp it But notwithstanding that, in defiance of M' Livingston ise did put in another Crop and gave out that Massachusets-liay would defend him, and he with many others of M"" Livingston's Tennnts, were prevailed On to sign the petition (In the Representation befor<' ns set forth) To have grants from the Massachusets Bay, for which Reason it became M*" Livingston's duty, if he v^oiild preserve his Mannor and Tenants to perform what he had declared That Lumis should not reap that Crop and M"" Livingston in July last went with a Sufficient number of people and did accordingly CuttDown and Carry away that Crop as it was Lawfull & right for him to do.