possession of my Grandfather my fatlier & self since the year 1686 & for which I have i-egular pattents under the Great Seal of this Province ready to be produced and there Girdled, & cutt down several thousands of trees fit to make Coal for my Ironworks, to my ver}' great damage, & told the men I sent to forbid him, that the Lands were his & he would go on &distroy the timber as he pleased & Robert Livingston kiss his a -- s. so that it appears by this Impertinent answer he was principle & not an hireling and accordingly was arrested & for want of sufficient Bail clap'd in Goal & some time after I obtained a judgment of Court against him for said damage agreable to the laws of this Province.

Nor may it please your Excellency was this Pain taken in such a violent manner by Patrick Migee, as Robert Van Deusen & his son Johannis two Tenants of mine were out of their house by a Deputy Sherriff, of Massachusets assisted by Josiah Loomis & several others, who tyed them on horses, & carry ed away & Committed them to Springfield Goal where I w^as obliged to gitt Surityes to prevent their Laying in a Goal, and some time after these 2 men were ajudged in the Court of Springfield to pay Josiah Loomis a Tenant of mine for supposed Traspass 30, odd pounds Lawfull money and X14-- of said money for Court charges, all which has been paid by me to the utmost farthing, as may appear by Receipts.