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»".

AFFIDAVITS OF PETER LIVINGSTON AND OTHERS.

City & County^ ^ On the 21tfa day of November 1755 The of Albany. ^' \ Deponents M^ Peter Livingston Dirck Swart Timothy Connor Jacob Decker and James Elliott appeared before me Dirck : W: Ten BroeckEsq^ one of his Majesties Justices of tlie Peace for the City & County of Albany and Made Oath on the Holy Evingelist of Almighty God That they on the 20^^ day of this Instant went to Taghkanick to the House lately in the Possesion of Johannifa Van Deusen son of Robert Van Deusen Vol. III. 52