His Excellency laid before the Board a letter from Henry Ten Eyck Junior Esq, Sherif of Albany of the 34 Inst signifying that in obedience to his Excellency's proclamation of the 1st ultimo for apprehending -certain Rioters therein named, he proceeded to Bennington and on the 29'» November in company with John Munro Esquire, and his Under Sherif, went to the House of Silas Robinson one of the Rioters, and there apprehended him ; That from the advice of Mt Munro and the Information he received

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he judged it best to return with his prisoner especially as he was reported to be one of the principal among them, rather than risque his being rescued; and that the'said Silas Robinson is now a prisoner in his custody, where he shall keep-him until he receives his Excellency's farther Instructions. ,

Wheretipon it is ordered by his Excellency the Governor with the advice of the Council, that a copy of the said Proclamation with the Original Affidavits touching the Riots therein mentioned, be delivered to his Majesty's Attorney General of this Province, and that he do prosecute the said Silas Robinson for the Matters with which he so stands charged.

PETITION OF CERTAIN PARTIES TO BE REANNEXED TO NEW HAMPSHIRE.

fO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

In Council.

The Humble Petition of Your Majesty's loyal, faithful obedient subjects, whose only hope of Relief from immediate poverty distress and ruin, with there helpless' Wives and Children, depends entirely on your Majesty's lenient and paternal Interposition, which unless your Majesty shall be graciously pleased to vouchsafe, they must suffer an inevitable ruin, Therefore they Humbly pray, to represent their unhappy state Hopeing your Majesty will be pleased to lend an Ear while they briefly relate some few of the distressful circumstances of their present situation--That they are Inhabitants of a Tract of your Majesty's Land now by your Majestys order within the jurisdiction of your Majesty's Government of New York which at the time of the removal of the line of jurisdiction was unanimously esteemed to be in your Majestys Province of New Hampshire, except only by some Interested Persons in New York, who have made large Fortunes out of those Lands & whose pretences were Totally unknown, which said Tract is Situate between the West- ' ern Banks of Connecticut River and Northline drawn at Twenty