The Honourable Committee and Commissioners of our Province, I hope has before this, drawn up a Representation of this affair of the Massachusets Government and presented it to your Honour to be transmitted to the Lords of trade, as this is necessary and of great Consiquence to me, as well as to many more in this province, the more so, as I am informed that the General Court of the Massachusets Bay were to do this Last Sessions, I hope your Honour will be pleased if ours be not yett Compleated, to recommend the same to be done speedily, and your Honour will Infinitly oblige

Your Honoui'S Most obediant & most Humble Serv*

RofiT Livingston Jun'.

BIANOa OF LIVINGSTON. 7C9

REPORT OF THE GENL COURT OF MASS: ON LIVIx\GSTON'S PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PAYNE.

May it please your Excfxlency

The prospect of a Controversy opening between this Province & the Province of New York respecting tlie Western Boundary of this Province, has been very disagreeable to the Assembly, and it was with much Pleasure that we were informed of tlie good Disposition lately discovered by his Honour the Lieutenant Governor of that Province, towards an amicable Settlement of that affair, & the assurances he has given your Excy of his making all reasonable attempts to effect it,

Eut it gives us no small Concern to observe while the People of this Province are on their Part acting with all possible Moderation & Lenity towards tlie private Persons in that Province engaged in actions here that grow out of this publick Dispute, and this Province are suspending the Prosecution of such measures as they had publickiy resolved, only in Compliance w"' a Proposal of attempting a mutual Settlement of this Dispute made by his Hon'" the Lieut' Gov'' of Uic': Province, and from a Disposition to avoid every thing that might tend to hinder their Success, That at the same time, the Conduct of some of the Gentlemen in that Province is directly the Eeverse, & such as tends very much to prevent such Agreement.