in a friendly manner To see By what authority they Run in our Possession and claim : they say they will not Take any advantage against us upon their words and say if we will go with them to Mr Perces where their things was they would show us; accordingly we went, they shew us an act of the Assembly to Divide their Great Pattens so that his Majesty might have his Quit-rent : and an act of the Pattentees of the wallumsack grant who had apointed them to make Partition of said Grant to Each Grantee we told them there Grant lay within the County of Albany and they were out of said County infringing on our Grants made By New Hampshire and we understood his Majesty had forbide them making any Grants on ours or hindering onr Settlement : they say we are forbide Making any Grants and stop: we Told them we did Not see as they had any Right To Run over the Twenty mile Line Breakinridge Desired they would Not Run in his Possession and Told them we ware appointed as Committee for Bennington and were Large Proprietors of Shaftsbury we therefore as such Did forbide there Running for we held our Lands By our New Hampshire Charters and had it in Possession and Supposed a good Right to it; and if they Run they must Run it as Disputed Lands they answered then Stop us or Break our chain: we Told them we would not Pake any unlawful methods But told them if they would not stop for what we had Sed they must Run it as Disputed Land and we would go home about our Bussines so parted: after we had got Some. Distance they called us Back and ask us if our People Intended to stop them they would Be glad they would do it, then to which we answered we Did Not think they would stop them But Did Not No: for we Did Not intend to Break any Law or Expose our selves : they say we had Beter stop them if we intended to we Returned the answer as Before we would not : unless they would Tell us what way we could without Breaking any Law for we had not breaken any Law Nor Did Not Intend to: they say we had. not nor they would not Take, any advantage against us But Desired we. would go to our People to No if they intended to stop them we told them we would go on their Desire if they would wait half an hour to which they agreed we went and Told the People the Gentlemen, Requist we Told them what we had