Whereas it appears tliat certain persons residing in or near the Eastern Borders of this Province, liave entered into a Combination to dispossess Robert Livingston Junior Esq^' Proprietor of the Manor of Livingston, within this Province, and the Tenants holding under him, of the Lands Comprized within the said Manor, under pretence of Title from the Government of the Massacliusets Bay, as also of an Indian Purchase lately made by the said Persons, altho' tis most notorious that the said Manor hatli, till very lately, been peaceably held and enjoyed by the said Robert Livingston and his Ancestors, for Seventy Years last past. Five years before tlie Charter of IG 91, to the Government of the Massachusets Bay, upon wliich only 'tis conceived tlie said Government can legally found their Claim. Notwithstanding which clear and manifest Riglit on the part of this Government, the said persons not content with their former Intrusions on liis Majesty's Lands within the same, first began to carry their desi^-ns into Execution by endeavouring to Corrupt and turn M^ Livingston's own Tenants against him, in whicli they so far succeeded that several Persons wlio till within a few years held Lands as Tenants under and paid their Rents to him now keep Possession of the Lands in defiance of, and set up a pretended Right against him, under tlie Government of tlie ISfassachuset's Bay, and the aforementioned Indian purchase : By w^hich illegal pi-oceedings, supported with Force, the Course of Justice hath been obstructed, the Lives of several of his Majee^ty's S:i;.bjects