away our people when ever they liave any opportunity, & sending bodyes of men out armed to run lines on our Lands, and to this day sending for my Tenants to Sheffield to take Quit claims for my Lands, they live on ; from that Government, with additions of 3. & 400 acres to each farm, and that for the Valuable Consideration of tm Shillings^ this I think every honest man must & will look on to be acts of violance, but not self defence, as in my Case, Tlie above account may it Please your Honour I presume will sufficiently justify me in doing what I did.

I think it necessary further to Inform your Honour that the men Confined in Albany Goal which Governour Sherley demands in his Letter to be delivered up, & which he Calls men of that Province, are Tenants to Coll^ Eenselaer, all but one, who was a tenant of mine & they all have been our tenants for some years Consiquently no Inhabitants of the Massachusets Bay so that Governour Sherlyes information with respect to them must be wrong these men I hear are sett at Liberty & are now home, but my poor fellows whoes family es are in a starving Condition still in Confinement, which has put it out of my power to furnish Mess-'s Banker & Dire hitherto with the Carrage wlieels and M' William Alexander with the Quantity of Shot, I engaged to deliver him for the Expidition to Onjagera & Crown point, and yett notwithstanding all this 111 treatment, I have received, as I had the Expedition very mucli at heart I orderd my Furnace as soon as I came from New York to be Immediately repaired at a great Expence of upwards of XlOO that I miglit still be able to furnish the Shott &a as Soon as my workmen returned that the Expeditions might not be retarded on that accou^ , and I have now had her in good order since monday Last, but no workmen yett, so that I cannot proceed in the Casting of them