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. That he pay the Charge of tlie Sute & give me his Bond for the amovmt of the judgment, & that he removes 100 miles from my Mannor & never to trouble me more directly nor indirectly on penelty of ^£50 this Oliver Partridge Esq^' offerd me. Pain should do, Last year, in the house M'' Cornells Cuyler at Albany ; and that his Excellency Genercil Sliirley, Be desired by the Commissioners to write one Letter more joyntly

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with them or tliat the Gentlemen Commissioners alone as they shall tliink fitt write to all those folcks now on my lands without my leave, who hold or pretend to hold under the Massachusets Government to remove out of my Mannor Immediately, that they shall not be Countinaneed nor Supported by their Government in those possessions & Riots ; all which I hope your Excellency will think but reasonable should be previously done on their parts ; and then your Excellency may assure the Gentlemen Commissioners that as soon as the Rioters & rebellious Tenants are gone out of my Mannor Pain shall be set at liberty.