ill a little time after; and at my return from New York Avliicli was on tlie 15 of may I was infurmed by my people, that Jan Halenbecks Cattle & liorses where again on the farm & that they distroyed the wiieat, I had Caused to be sowed there; on the next day I wlient tliither to se it; and found the fences in a very bad & brooken Condition, and was told there by my Trusty Tenants, the same Evening that the New England people where runing Lines to lay out a Township in the North part of my Mannor, the next morning I sent two men to se if they could find them, who came back in tlie afternoon & brought me word that they where gone out of my Mannor into Collo Renselaers by the marked trees tliey had seen, but that tliey had not seen the Company; Then the monday following as it was very necessary my wheat sliould be taken care of, I orderd M"" Timothy Connor to go with about 40 or 50 men to Tachkanick & go in the house where Jan Halenbeck had lived in, that I would follow him with provisions, in order to make up the fences to secure the wheat & Grass, he accordingly whent & I met him there the same afternoon he carryed with him by my order the three Guns mentioned in the deposition and Each man a small arm, or Sword, or Cutlass in order to defend me and the men from a parcell of bandity, that live back of me in Tachkanick mountains to the Eastward, and from the people of Sheffield who where then in the woods in Cull^ Renselaers & my mannor, I tarryed with my men till Thursday k orderd my kitchin tlie Loghouse mentioned in the deposition to be pulled down to make up the fences & saw that all the fences were put up in good order, and a piece of In.