M'' Crannell an Attorney at Paughkeepsie and many others told me if tlie Serjt had not imprudently given Lieu' Colonel Darbys Orders & pass to the Serj^ of the 55^'! Regiment, the Justice of the peace upon his producing them would not have committed them to Goal and added from the informations sworn against them

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by Mead, DriskiU &c they could not be released but by order of the Governor or a letter from him to y® Justicces.

By what information I could collect from the inhabitants, those of the nine Partners are a riotous people and Levellers by principle. Paul Rycaut Captain.

To Lieu* Colonel John Darby.

SURVEYOR GENERi^L'S OBJECTIONS TO THE BOUNDS

CLAIMED FOR THE MINISINK PATENT.

To the Honourable Cadwallader Golden Esq His Majestys Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the Province of New York, and Territories Depend ing thereon in America. The Representation of Alexander C olden Surveyor General of the said Province. Humbly Sheweth

That some of the Proprietors of a Tract of Land in this Province commonly known by the Name of the Minissink Patent, having Filed in the Secretary's Office a Map and Partition of the said Tract, in pursuance of an Act of the Lieut Governor, the Council, and General Assembly, intituled " An Act for the more Effectual Collecting of His Majesty's Quitrents in the Colony of New York, and for Partition of Lands in order thereto." I think it my Duty to make some remarks thereon, whereby it will appear that the said Proprietors have greatly Intruded on the Kings Lands, to the prejudice of his Riglits and Interest in his Quitrents, waveing aU other Exceptions, wliioh may be justly taken to the Legality of this Partition