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.

It's very agreable to me to find that tliese Gentlemen Commissioners, and I hope the Massachusets Bay Government are desii'ous of having a line of settlement made between the two Provinces I doubt not but your Excellency will be readily disposed to joyn them in it, that peace & good neighbourhood may again be restored to the borders, which I sincerely hope may be speadily ; and that your Excellency will be pleased by some means or other to gitt all those Rioters now on my lands without my leave, to be dispossesed & turned out, and on Refuzal to be Clapt in Goal, as I am daily in danger of my Life by the means of them I shall be glad to se your Excellency & Company at my house & Remain with due Difference.

To Sir Charles Hardy Kn* Your Excellency's Governour & Commander in Chief Most obediant and most of the Province of New York and Humble Seiv^ the TeiTitories tliereto belonging &c Rob^' Livingston Jun»".