Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. III

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

I must therefore Intreat your Honour to use your best Endeavours with the Government of the Massachusets Bay to gitt these men Set a Liberty k sent home ; and that a Line of peace may be speadily settled that we may once more live in peace & good Neighbourhood, on our Borders and I shall take care that my people remains Quiet, as long as my unruly Tenants who I