The two last, pretended owners of the Lands of the said Peter & Bastiane. All whom I brought down to the Jail in Albany; where I shall Safely keep them untill Bail be given for their appearance & good Behaviour; or untill your Honours further Pleasure shall be known respecting them. Iam, May it please your Honour Your Honours most Obet & most Hble Servant Har: Scuvyter, Shireff. (Endorsed) 17 Augt 1764. Read in Council.
(Counc. Min. xxy.]
In Couneil, 4 Sept. 1764.
His Honour communicated a Letter to him of the 17» ultimo from Governor Wentworth (of New Hampshire) representing that several of the Inhabitants of the Town of Pownall, at a Time when the Deputy Sheriff was executing a legal Precept, were set upon by the Sheriff Albany, and more than thirty armed men on Horseback, and that the Deputy Sheriff with three other Principal Inhabitants, were seized upon and carried to Albany, where they were immediately committed to @aol--and desireing His Honour would give orders for the Release of the Persons so apprehended and committed adding that it would be
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an act of cruelty to Punish Individuals for disputes between the two Governments, and that as the Jurisdiction is the Main Thing in Question, he is ready and willing to submit what concerns him 'to the King, not in the least doubting but his Honour will readily join in a Matter so essential to the Peace of his own Government as well as that.