And now may it please your Excellency, there is still a party of Bandity at Tachkanick in my Mannor to whome his Excellency General Shirley wrote a kind Letter of advice the otiier day whicli your Excellency had the reading off, who deny that Governour Sliirley is Goveruour of any Province, k call him a Coll" of a Ridgment at oswego, & refuse to leave my Mannor & go out of the House of my Tenant Van Deusen who they disposses by violence, as youi- Excellency will se by the Inclosed affidavits ; and Say that they have bought the Lands of the Massachusets Government and will hold them by Virtue of that purchase, now Sir if these people realy have no Title from that Government nor the other Folcks formerly my Tenants who I had turned away & are Retui'ned again into these old farms Contrary to my orders, & have sent me word that they will defend themselves by their arms, I shall think the Massachusetts Government greatly Injured by them and that they are Vagabonds ;

But for me to order the Sheritf of Albany County to sett Pain at Liberty, without having satisfaction made me, and without every mans leaving my Mannor who Clame or pretend to claim a right in it by Virtue of Grants from or under the Massachusets Bay k now live on my Lands against my will I hope your Excellency will not advise me.

But may it please your Excellency, as I am sincerely disposed to oblige your Excellency, and to have a speady End put to aU Riotes & disorders, to live in peace & Quietness with all my neighbours. Especially on the Borders ; I will consent that the Sheriff shall set Joseph Pain at Liberty, on the Conditions following to wit.