• Two of my Tenants Michial Halenbeck and Josiah Loomis the former a tenant for above thirty years, & the latter about 12 whome as he was an ore Diger my Late Father gave liberty to build a small house on his ore bed for the Conveniency of liis family, these two persons liave been to Boston this winter, with David iDgersol of Sheffield, alias Westenliook, to Solicit the General Court for my Lands and returned 16 days agoe in high Spirits & Report among my other tenants that they had each =£10, given them by the General Court to bear their Expences and incouraged to go on in troubleing me with assurance to be baild by them in case this Government Should order tliem in ' Goal and to have all their Charges paid them, that a Committee was to come out about the middle of marcli to lay out a township m my mannor and tliat they had a letter from the General Court to M^ Lydius to baU Joseph Pain whome I last fall sued for

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Trespass for distroying upwards of 1100 trees near my Furnace on which he was committed to Albany Goal, with which letter Pains wife is gone up to Albany but not yett returned, tho' daily expected with her husband, whome I doubt not but she will bring with her, These proceedings of the General Court if true (wliich from tlieir late behaviour I have no reason to doubt) have a manifest tendency to Confusion and hostility, many of my tenants who were before this easy and Quiet now begin to be Shy of coming to my house as usual and I have reason to fear that they wiU join the Committee against me when they come to lay out my Lands.