-who seized the high SHIRREF of city &, COUNTY OF ALBANY THE 11 FEBRER 1755.

Robert Noble William S Halenbeck

Thomas Willnie Myhiel Halenbeck

Jacob Bacon Hendrik A Brosie

Joseph Jellit William Ja Rees

Benj" Lovejoy Francis Bo vie

Eiysa Stodder Andris J. Rees

Benjamin Chittenton William J. Halenbeck

Richard Vane Natan Lovejoy

Talvenis Stevens Hymon Spensei-

Wheat Herk Andrew Lovejoy Daniel Lovejoy.

MANOR OF LIVINGSTON. 779

IT. GOV. DE LANOEY TO GOV. SHIRLEY.

New York 17 Febry 1755

M*' Livingston has lately made a complaint to me that he is threatned and disturbed in the possession of his lands by some of the Magistrates & others of your Government, and 1 am informed that Robert Noble an inhabitant of this Province has a Commission as a Cciptain from you, and that some others have also Commissions & that the said Noble has taken Clark Pixly a Constal)le and .Jolm Morreso & carried them to the Goal at Springfield, I persuade myself your Excellency has not been fully acquainted with these circumstances as J am assui-ed you would not give into measures that tend to create a civil war between Ids Majesty's subjects especially at a time wlien all our attention is requisite to oppose our natural enemy. I expect from your Excellency's justice that you will order tlie Constable & Moreso to be immediately discharged and that you will be pleased to revoke the Commission given to Noble & others who are inhabitants of this Province and have long lield their lands by title under it, Nothing could give me a greater concern tluin to be laid under tlie necessity at this time of enforcing the authority & laws of the Government against these disorderly and seditious persons who disturb the peace of the Province, I therefore hope your Excellency will discountenance them and put a stop to such evil practices as must end in confusion, the propctsal of a temporary line the west side of Housatanik River to 160 yrds West of Fort Massachusetts made by the Commissioners of this Province at Albany to your Commissioners is such as appears to me very reasonable to be embraced by Massachusetts Bay, it leaves your Government one third of Westenhook Patent which was granted under this Province in the year 1705 and purchased of the Indians in 1685, the ratlier as from the Records I have seen and tlie arguments used, it seems very evident, that his Majesty's rights extend eastv>'ard as far as Connecticut River, which is above thirty miles beyond the line proposed by this Province.