Whereas in pursuance of An Act of the Legislature of this Province, entitled An Act for the more effectual collecting his Majesty's Quit-Rents in the Colony of New-York, and for Partition of Lands in order thereto; Commissioners and a Surveyor were appointed to make Partition of certain Lots, Parcel of a larger Tract of Land, situate on the East Side of Hudson's River, in the County of Albany, called Wallumschaack, granted to James De Lancey, Gerardus Stuyvesant, Esquires, and others, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the said Province, bearing Date the fifteenth Day of July, One thousand seven hundred and thirty nine: And the said Commissioners in the Execution of their Duty, being employed in surveying the said Lots, were on the nineteenth Day of October, One thousand seven hundred and sixty nine, interrupted and opposed by a Number of armed Men, tumultuously and riotously assembled for the declared Purpose of preventing the said Partition, who by open Force compelled the Surveyor to desist from the said Survey, and by insults and Menaces, so intimidated the Commissioners as to oblige them to relinquish at that Time, any further Attempt to discharge the Trust reposed in them: And whereas the Proprietors of the said Patent, and other Lands held in Virtue of the Grants of this Province, finding Claims against their Right, set up under the Government of Mew-Hampshire, did cause divers Ejectments to be brought for Tryal of the Title to the said Lands, and at the Circuit Court held for the City and County of Albany, in June last, obtained three several Verdicts by special Juries; from whence it was hoped that the riotous Spirit would subside, which had so long prevailed, to the great Injury of that Part of the Country : Whereupon the Owners of the said Patent of Wallum-