I am told a Committee is Shortly to come from Boston to lay out a Great part of Coll° Renselaers, & my Lauds, & to give Grants thereof to our Tenants, & to appoint officers & to Exercise Jurisdiction, which if true, will certainly be a means of blood Sheed, I must therefore beg of your Honour to send me as well as the Justices & Sheriffs of Albany and Dutches, your orders how to act, in Case they do come, & offer to lay out our Lands &a. that we may be prepared to meet them, I have lately been informed from Boston that a Committe of war from thence was to go to New York to advise or treat with our Government on affairs of great Importance to all tlie Cololiyes, this may p haps be a good oppertuuity to Settle a line of peace witli that Government, and I liope your Honour will Insist upon it, with

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those Gentlemen that it may bo done Speadily tliat we may again live in peace & Good neighbourhood & joyn together in good Earnest to attack oiu' Common Enemy ; and that your Honour will be pleased to write Governour Sherly to desire him to order llosnian out of Goal again, k to send his orders to the magistrates & officers of Sheffield, Stockbridge k^^- not to Exercise any Jurisdiction within our autient known Limitts or wliatever else your Honour SIkiII think will be more conducive to Establish a lasting peace between the two Governments, which will exceedingly oblige