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
and tliat a Line of peace may be speadily Settled until his Majestyes pleasure be know, tliat so peace may be again restor'd to His Subjects & we live in good Neighbourhood on the Borders, and your Excellency will Infinitely oblige
Your Excellencyes most Obedient
and most Humble Serv*
RoB^ Livingston junf
THE SAME TO THE SAME.
Mannor Livingston ye 23 Novemb. 1755.
May it Please your Excellency
Just now I received your Excellency's favours of the 20 Current, with inclosed Copy of a letter from the Commissioners of the Massachusets Bay now at Albany to your Excellency complaining of the detainer of one Joseph Paine, in Albany goal at m.y Sute ; in which they are pleased to say, that this man was arrested for a supposed Traspass, on Lands claimed by that Government, altho' an hireling and at work in the field of another man ; In which I think these Gentlemen are misinform'd the truth is, that this Pain was a wood cutter for my Deceased father at his Ironworks above 12 years agoe, & begd of him to lett him have a small farm near the works for him & his old woman to live on wliich after some time was granted, & where he lived unmolested untill 1753, when he whent in defyance of me with his Son in Law into my woods which had been in the