It's now about two years Since, that I ordered Jan Halenbeck a tenant of mine the person in whose house Timothy Connor is Sayd in the deposition to have Enterd, to Look out for another place to live on, as his Leese Avas Expired, I would not suffer him to live any longer on my lands, and that he must take care not to plough nor Sow any more on them, for that if he did, I would come & reap it, whicli he promised me to Comply with, but some little time after being sett up by that wicked Varlet David Engersol, he fell a ploughing and in the fall a sowing the farm with wheat &a as usual, and when it was fitt to reep the last harvest I whent thither according to my promise & took 50 men with me in order to cut it, when I came there, he had akeady got 1 5 hands in the field busye a

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mowing, -whom I ordered immediately to go home telling them that I was able to mowe my owne Crop, and at the same time thanking tliem for the trouble tliey had already taken in mowing what they liad done, upon vvliich they all whent Quietly liome ; and then Jan Halenbeck sent John TenEyck to me in the field to know whether I would be pleased to agree with him for the Crop as it stood, upon which as it would save Expences & trouble I asked him 300sk. of Clean wheat, which he thought too much, and offered me 200, to be delivered at Ancram on the 20 day of January, which I agreed to, and he and his Son W'" became bound for the delivery of it which they accordingly did by the time, and the Said Jan Halenbeck did then also in the presence of at least 20 Evidences deliver up the farm to me, on Condition that he might tarry in the house till tlie first day of May following, which I agreed to, and then I sent two of my hands with 2 ploughs and 12 liorses to plough the land for Summer fellow, and in tlie fall had it sowed Avith wheat, and the fences well mended & sent my people from time to time to look after it and on the first day of May last, I whent to take possession of the house according to agreement when I came tliere Jan & his wife with some of tlie Cliildren where gone out of my manner to a place he had bought near Slieffield, and some of the household goods removed, but lie had left two daughters & a wench in the house the Eldest of the daughters faiued herself Sick, I had her carefully carryed in my waggon on a feather'd bed, to one of the neighbours where she desh-ed to be, the other k the wench I turned away k put tlie remaining part of the houseliold Goods on tlie outside of the fence from whence they where fetched by Jan's people, and I left one of my High dutch Servants in the house in order to take care of the wlieat & to make a gardin & whent home, some very few days after there came a white man & an Indian who took tlie Servant & Carryed liim to Slieffield where I am told lie is Listed to go on the present Expedition.