Last night Coenrat Clyn came to my house from Taghkanick and Desired me to Acquaint you that Robert Miller was appointed by the Club as an Agent to go for tliem to New York in order to procui-e Title from the Governor for the Land at Taghkanick their farther Resolutions were to Every man make his Pitch and Settle tins Spring it appears to me tiiese Turbilent folks will Give you fresh Trouble and it may be worse than Ever if no met];iod can be thought on to stop them in tlie first part of their Carreer if they were people of any Consideration there would be some hopes that the Late Proclamation would prevent their farther attempts but they are a Sett of fellows void of all thought but what may make the Settlement & Possesion of your Lands

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firm aud Eassy to tliemselves whicli I liope may never take place j\P Decker will come down to morrow by whome I send M'" Harris Bond for £iS. 4 and C! cash for 8 Sbeermoulds he forgot to ask for when y« Bond was Given I am Hon^ Sir

Yoiir Most Hum' Serv*

James Elliott RoB^ Livingston Esq""

PROCLAMATION TO AKREST RIOTERS.

By the Honom-able Cadwallader Colden, Esq ; His Majest7 s Lieutenant Governor, and Commander in Cliief of the Province of New- York, and the Territories depending thereon in America.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas it appearing that certain Persons residing on or near the Eastern Boundaries of this Province, had entered into a Combination to dispossess Robert Livingston^ junior. Esq ; Proprietor of tlie Manor of Livingston, in the Colony of J\'ew- York, and the Tenants holding under him, of the Lands comprised within t'le said ^^anor, under Pretence of Title from the Government of the Massachusetts-Bay; as also of an Indian Purcliase then lately made by the said Persons, alth.o' it was most notorious that the said Mav.iyr had been peaceably he'd and