That John Mills my Carpenter with two other men, were busye repairing my Dam at the mouth of a pond, to Dam the water to Supply my Iron works, which lays about 12 miles from the River, when they had a massage brought them by one of my Tenants from Tachkanick to go liome & not work any more there, for that the New England people would come the next day & take them away & break down the Dam, and that one Wittney the liead of the Gan, told John Doffine another of my Tenants, that he would take my Carpenter John Mills & Carry him away, and that Josiah Loomis who was at the Request of the Government of the Massachusets Eay relesed out of Albany Goal in August last was now among the Gan at Taclikanick and I fear they have by this time turned out of possession Several more of my Quiet Tenants and Committed many other outrages to my very great Damage

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Wherefore I must, as being a Subject of tliis Province, beg your Excellencyes Protection, and assistance in this Grand affiiir, wliich not only treatens me, and family with utter ruin, but man^ poor fiimilyes settled under my Grand Father & father ; and tliat your Excellency will be pleased to take this matter into your Consideration, while his Excellency Governour Sherly is now in this Town, that you may fall on some Efiectuall Method or other, to put a Speady Stop to those riotes Proceedings, and tliat these people of that Province now on my Estate without my lea^'e may be forthwith orderd to leave it, and not come again to disturb me or any of my Tenants